A utilização de um material instrucional baseado na teoria da aprendizagem significativa para aprendizes-marinheiros : uma introdução ao estudo do movimento dos corpos

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Rogério Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/4795
• topic: Aprendizagem significativa; Unidade de Ensino Potencialmente Significativa; Movimento dos corpos; Material instrucional; Delineamento experimental; Material didático; Estudo do movimento; Educação - Métodos experimentais; Física - Estudo e ensino; Meaningful learning; Potentially Meaningful Teaching Units; Movement of the bodies; Instructional material; Experimental design; Ensino de Ciências e Matemática; 53

This research endeavour aimed at applying an Instructional Material (IM) which approaches Movement of the Bodies concepts, using naval environment elements, as well as evaluating the learning impact on a group of 22 Remedial Classes students of Escola de Aprendizes-Marinheiros do Espírito Santo. The Instructional Material was based on the assumptions of the Meaningful Learning Theory and on the guidance for elaboration of Potentially Meaningful Teaching Units. The instruments used for data collection were: Pre and Post-tests, Conceptual Maps, Open Questions throughout the Instructional Material, “Students’ Mood”, teacher’s diary, Opinion Questionnaire, and Interview with students. The design chosen for the research was experimental and the data analysis was mainly quantitative. The results of statistics tests revealed that the elaborated IM had a positive impact on the performance in the Post-test of the Experimental Group students compared to the Control Group (p-valor = 0,003). According to the criteria used for its classification, the qualitative analysis of Final Conceptual Maps revealed an improvement on the representation of central concepts to understand the Movement phenomenon. The quantitative analysis found that the Quality of Final Conceptual Maps is statistically correlated with the students’ results in the Post-test (p-valor= 0,040). The results suggested that the use of Conceptual Maps may be also a reliable instrument for learning evaluation of concepts related to Movement of the Bodies. The use of Open Questions throughout the IM allowed both individual and group discussion and promoted the Negotiation of Meaning of the approached concepts. The results of both the Opinion Questionnaire and the Interviews, revealed that the use of Experiments, Videos/Films and Simulations effectively contributed to raise students’ interest in the IM approached topic. The results were complementary and pointed out the success of the IM elaborated based on the assumptions of the Meaningful Learning Theory to introduce the Movement of Bodies concepts for the Seaman-Apprentice.