Difficulties of Students in Learning High School Physics Courses and Suggestions for Solutions

In the study, it was aimed to determine the difficulties encountered in physics course in line with the views of 12th grade high school students and to examine the solution suggestions for these difficulties. In the study conducted using descriptive qualitative research design, data were collected with an unstructured questionnaire. Qualitative data and demographic information were collected with the unstructured ‘questionnaire for determining students’ opinions about the subject of difficulty and physics’ prepared by the researchers. While the validity of the questionnaire was ensured by expert opinions, its reliability was tested by pilot application. Ninety-six high school physics students studying in a small-scale province in Eastern Anatolia participated in the study. The collected data were analysed by content analysis method. As a result of the analyses, the topics that students had difficulty with in the 12th grade high school physics course and the solution suggestions for the topics that students had difficulty with were determined in line with the opinions of the students. It was determined that electricity and magnetism was the most difficult subject. Themes were formed in line with the answers given by the students about why they had difficulty in this subject and the solution suggestions they offered.