ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 48, Number 5
JKCSEZ 48(5)
October 20, 2004 

This study researched 122 high school students?and 97 chemistry majored teachers?perceptions on evaporation and boiling compared heating and no heating situations. From the results, it was found that the teachers?thoughts of evaporation and boiling depend on the situation were stable, but students?thoughts were depend on the situations. The high school students thought evaporation as boiling on the situation of heating and thought boiling as evaporation on the situation of no heating. These phenomena were related to the explanations of science textbooks. In many textbooks, evaporation concept was explained in the situation of no heating and boiling concept was explained in the situation of heating.