Table (2) illustrates the results for items on students’ conceptions of temperature. More than 50% of the respondents have their own ideas regarding conceptions of temperature in all items as follows:
· Temperature is the “intensity” of heat.
· Skin or touch can determine temperature.
· Perceptions of hot and cold are unrelated to energy transfer.
· When temperature at boiling remains constant, something is “wrong.”
· Boiling point is the maximum temperature a substance can reach.
· A cold body contains no heat.
· The temperature of an object depends on its size.
· There is no limit on the lowest temperature.