A.S.D. Adila, Sutopo, Wartono
The purpose of this research was to analyze the improvement of students' mastery of thermodynamics concepts after they learn three packages of recitation program that cover state equation of ideal gas, The First Law of Thermodynamic, and The Second Law of Thermodynamic. The subjects consisted of 21 undergraduate students enrolling in the fundamental physics course. The results showed that the recitation program improved students' conceptual understanding of thermodynamic with the d-effect size of 2.51 and N-gain of 0.365. The program effectively helps the students in constructing P-V diagrams and understanding the relationship between the average particle's kinetic energy and temperature of the gas. However, some contents need to be improved to help the students more fluent in determining total work and heat involved in any cyclic process. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Graduate Program of Physics Education, State University of Malang, 5th Semarang Street, Malang, Indonesia; Physics Department, State University of Malang, 5th Semarang Street, Malang, Indonesia
