Teaching by Research and the development of Scientific Competencies: Analysis of graphic productions by students of a Science Club in the Amazon

Abstract

Training citizens capable of developing competences associated with the construction, appropriation and critical use of scientific knowledge in their individual or collective reality is the objective of competence-based education. From this context, we seek to understand how the use of Teaching by Investigation can favor or enhance the development of Scientific Competencies in its conceptual and procedural dimension. For this, we carried out a Case Study, through a qualitative approach, where we analyzed the graphic productions of 22 students from a Science Club in the Amazon that were carried out during the Writing and Drawing stage of an Investigative Teaching Sequence (SEI) that addressed the “Boat Problem”, seeking to identify the presence of Scientific Competence Indicators (SCI) associated with the aforementioned dimensions. In the methodological design, we created a rubric based on our theoretical framework composed of five ICC for each analyzed dimension. The results show that most graphic productions presented ICC associated with the procedural dimension and a satisfactory number presented ICC of the conceptual dimension, showing that the investigative approach favors and provides opportunities for the development of skills of a technical and methodological nature of scientific work and of a cognitive nature as learning scientific concepts.