Abstract

VALLE ORTIGOZA, Liliana del; ESTER CONTINI, Liliana  and  OLIVEIRA, Marcel da Silva Lessa de. Teaching activities in physics laboratories: perceptions of students from Brazil and Argentina. A reflection for education. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2016, vol.41, n.3, pp.651-670. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v41i3.41900.

In this paper we reflect on perceptions and representations that students from universities in Brazil and Argentina have about studying in Physics didactic laboratories. 150 students that attend the Physics laboratory classes of Universidade Edtadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC) (Brazil) and Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) (Argentina) participated in the research. Approximately 100% have reported using pre-established guides in experimental classes while a low percentage (30% in Brazil and 12% in Argentina) recognizes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); regarding their views about the purpose of activities in Physics laboratories, 87% of students in Brazil and 96% in Argentina understand that it is about Applying/Reinforcing/Verifying the theory they learned. In both countries, the majority of students expressed that they have never used or do not remember having used experiments in their physics classes in previous educational levels.

Keywords : Physics Teaching; Didactic Laboratory; Perceptions.

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