WHY DOES THE GENERAL CHEMISTRY DISCIPLINE FAIL SO MUCH?

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro Mueller, Eduardo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Vanin, Letícia, Bezerra Cardoso, Gabriel, Pereira Dantas, Rans Miler
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Prática Docente
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.cfs.ifmt.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/rpd/article/view/499
• topic: Química Geral; Aprovação; Reprovação; Aprendizagem; General chemistry; Approval; Disapproval; Learning

This work is part of an investigative approach called Transition High School/ University: conflicts of access to higher education in Chemistry. In this article the objective was to verify statistical contradictions related to pass and fail in Basic Education and Higher Education in Chemistry, and to investigate the relationship between the high failure rates in the discipline of General Chemistry and the profile of students who enter the undergraduate course in Chemistry at UFMT - Campus Araguaia. For this, we performed data collection (enrolled, approved and disapproved) with the chemistry degree course and with SEDUC-MT, results from 2014 to 2018, and performed participant observation in the general chemistry class of the semester 2019/1. The results confirmed our hypothesis, that there is a distinction regarding the assessment of grades and the level of difficulty of the practiced evaluations. We conclude that, in both cases, learning is not being achieved satisfactorily.