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For a student to be successful at a subject, it is necessary for him/her to know relevant concepts fully and to construct them in the mind accurately. The aim of this study is to determine the knowledge and application level of high education tenth grade students at main concepts of Turkish verb frame, to identify their existent misconceptions and to dwell on the reasons of the misconceptions. Mixed methods research approach, which is both quantitative and qualitative, is used in this study. Misconception Detection Test that is prepared by the researcher, is applied to 224 tenth grade students, additionally it is asked them to write explanations about concepts that are identified for both two grade levels. The analyses of quantitative data is realized by assessment of students’ conception knowledge levels at six categories such as “knows”, “lack of knowledge”, “not knows”, “knows but can’t practice”, “hidden misconception” and “misconception”. The content analyses of qualitative data is realized by installation of students answers to four groups such as “knows”, “lack of knowledge”, “not knows” and “misconception”. From the findings of quantitative and qualitative data that supports each other, it is concluded that most of students do not know voice and its sub-concepts, can’t interrelate the concepts, can’t transfer their knowledge to application area and having misconceptions.

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