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. 2019 Nov 1;10:2398. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02398

TABLE 3.

Analysis of frequencies and percentages of the type of response given by the students.

Unit Thematic Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4 Type 5 Type 6 Total type -unit Percentage
Unit 1 Scientific methods. Physical magnitudes. 2 3 5 1 5 0 16 17.02
Unit 2 Movement 0 1 0 0 4 0 5 5.32
Unit 3 Forces 3 1 3 0 2 0 9 9.57
Unit 4 Rotation and force 0 0 6 0 3 13 22 23.40
Unit 5 Pressure and atmosphere 0 0 4 0 2 3 9 9.57
Unit 6 Energy and work 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 17.02
Unit 7 Heat 0 0 0 0 11 0 11 11.70
Unit 8 Movement and undulatory phenomena 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 5.32
Unit 9 Sound 0 0 0 0 6 0 6 6.38
Unit 10 Light and color 0 1 0 0 5 2 8 8.51
Total type 5 6 19 1 43 20 94 100
Percentage type error 5.32 6.38 20.21 1.06 45.74 21.28 100.00

Type 1, Does not relate the content that is under study; Type 2, Correct response; Type 3, Lack of vocabulary for a strict definition of the physics concept; Type 4, Arrives at a correct conclusion and relates what is remembered; Type 5, Ambiguous understanding; Type 6, Conceptual error.