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Distance learning during this pandemic makes students more often access the internet for learning purposes. The habit of copying and pasting sources from the internet without confirming the correctness of the information obtained causes misconceptions in students. In the analogy approach, there is a comparison between two concepts that can expand students’ thinking patterns. While comics contain explanations of the material outlined in the form of pictorial stories that will attract the attention of the readers. By applying an analogy approach in educational comics that is packaged in the concept of changing conceptions, it is hoped that it will direct analogical reasoning and activate deeper understanding so that it can form scientific conceptions in students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of educational comics by analogy in overcoming student misconceptions on simple electrical circuit material. The sample of this study was 30 students at one of the public Islamic junior high school in South Jakarta who were taken purposively. The research method used is a pre-experimental method and the design used is a one-shot case study. Students who were used as samples had identified misconceptions in the electrical circuit material using a Simple Electrical Circuit Diagnostic Test (SECDT). The results of this study found that analogy educational comics can replace students’ misconceptions with scientific truths and it was found that 63% were aware of their misconceptions, gained new knowledge and believed in the truth of scientific explanations presented in the comics.

Series Electrical Circuit material is one of the basic materials in physics. Despite its applications in everyday life literacy, many electrical concepts are abstract so they are difficult to learn. Many students have difficulty in understanding the concept. Therefore, a diagnostic test instrument is needed to diagnose the concept of Series Electrical Circuit of the students. Researcher has developed the Series Electrical Circuit Survey (SECCS) instrument test into a four-tier test of diagnostic items. The purpose of this research is structured as the first step of the development of the SECCS four-tier test format as a diagnostic test instrument. The research method used is a 4D model (Defining, Designing, Developing and Disseminating). The developed instrument has been tested on 32 students in Madrasah Tsanawiyah (secondary level). The results of the study show that the development of SECCS in the form of a four-tier test has good validity and reliability and may be able to identify the category of students' level of conception, namely students who understand concepts, understand but partially, misconceptions and do not understand the concept of simple electrical circuits at all.

Researchers developed the Parallel Electrical Circuit Online Conceptual Survey (SKORLP) instrument into a four-tier diagnostic test. The purpose of the study was as a first step in the development of the SKORLP four-level test format into a diagnostic test instrument on Parallel Electrical Circuit materials. The research method used is a 4D model (Defining, Designing, Developing, and Disseminating). The instrument developed has been tested on 23 students in one of the MTs of South Jakarta. From the results of the study, it was found that the development of SKORLP in the form of a four-tier test allows it to be presented online and has great potential in producing student conception profiles in the parallel electrical circuit material, that is, students who understand the concept of Sound Understanding (SU), understand but partially or Partial Understanding (PU), misconceptions or Misconceptions (MC), do not understand the concept of Parallel Electrical Circuits at all or No Understanding (NU).