Abstract

KINDSVATER, Norma M. et al. Evaluation of strategies for information processing in teaching experimental sciences. Cienc. docencia tecnol. [online]. 2008, n.36, pp.13-42. ISSN 1851-1716.

Professors of Inorganic Chemistry and Physical courses explore the students' difficulties from thinking over their own educational practices in order to produce knowledge useful to contribute theoretical and practical elements for research and didactic innovation. The procedural contents are used as indicators of difficulty. Each course has its own strategy to explore difficulties; its application proves to be innovative for its characteristics: evaluation is performed on how the students process the information rather than how much of it they retain. The difficulties are set more clearly, showing connections between the management of learning strategies and the students' perfomance, their perception and evaluation on their own abilities and difficulties, their concepts of teaching and learning. This knowledge should sustain a reconfiguration of teaching strategies, one able to facilitate the acquisition, organization, elaboration and recovery of the students' knowledge on these experimental sciences.

Keywords : Teaching science; Inorganical chemestry; Physics; Thinking skills.

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