Abstract

COVOLAN, Silvia Cristina Teodoro  and  SILVA, Dirceu da. A entropia no ensino médio: utilizando concepções prévias dos estudantes e aspectos da evolução do conceito. Ciência educ. [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.01, pp.97-118. ISSN 1516-7313.

From aInside of constructivist perspective, the research in question intended to evaluate the evolution of High School pupils’ learning evolution, when placed in contact with the concept of entropy in daily situations, through by activities and didactic texts. Our strategy was has been based on the students´ previous conceptions and on the use of the evolutionary process of conceptual development and construction as background to put the developed knowledge. The data was been collected from a group of ten students through pre and post after-tests and we analyzed them us theing contents analysis. technique to analyzed it Like conclusions, it was possible to verify an improvement was seen ion those concepts in of the majority of the students under consideration.

Keywords : Physics Education; Entropy; Constructivism; Conceptual Evolution.

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