Assessment in Physics and in Chemistry: what kind of learning is favoured in secondary school teaching?

dc.creator	Claudia Alejandra Mazzitelli
dc.creator	Ana María Guirad
dc.creator	Adela del Carmen Olivera
dc.date	2013-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:10:22Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:10:22Z
dc.identifier	1518-8795
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e57337d246ed495ca4ed5d96a416d2d8
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13573
dc.description	The teaching and learning process of Natural Science, nowadays, presents some difficulties which become evident, among others, in the students’ low academic achievement. With the aim of deepening our knowledge about this problem in order to promote actions which contribute to the improvement of the quality of the educational system, we carried out an experience during which we studied the processes involved in the teaching and learning of Physics and Chemistry. Secondary school students and teachers of Physics and Chemistry took part in the experience. We believe that assessment is a key factor of the teaching and learning process and of the school curriculum development. For this reason, we analyzed the evaluations that teachers carry out in class and their interrelationship with the teaching-learning process. The strategies implemented by the teachers, as well as the evaluation process, have allowed us to infer the background which supports their conception of what learning science means. The results obtained suggest that students have better achievement when they are asked to memorize, and this could be related to the students’ low performance in activities which demand more complex cognitive abilities. Favouring a learning process based only on memory may lead to erroneous conceptions about the building up of scientific knowledge and, besides, may not contribute to the development of meaningful and autonomous learning.
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.language	Spanish
dc.publisher	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID324/v18_n1_a2013.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1518-8795
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 143-159 (2013)
dc.subject	evaluation
dc.subject	secondary education
dc.subject	teaching practice
dc.subject	learning
dc.subject	Physics
dc.subject	Chemistry
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science General
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science General
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.title	Assessment in Physics and in Chemistry: what kind of learning is favoured in secondary school teaching?
dc.type	article