An evaluation on the difficulties for entering undergraduate Chemistry courses in Pernambuco

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Jéssica Itaiane Ramos de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Leite, Quesia dos Santos Souza, Leite, Bruno Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Docência do Ensino Superior (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/1976
• topic: Dificuldades na aprendizagem; Ensino de Química; Ingressos em Química; Learning difficulties; Chemistry Teaching; Chemistry Students

The experiences along the first year at the university are very important for the students’ permanence in undergraduate education. However, the process of teaching and learning is usually filled with difficulties and in Chemistry teaching it is not different; there are many barriers to the construction of knowledge. The aim of this research was to identify some difficulties in the beginning of the Chemistry course by students at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco in the Academic Unit of Serra Talhada. The quantitative research consisted on the application of a questionnaire to 40 students from the first and second periods. The results reveal some difficulties faced by the students such as the need for abstracting Chemistry concepts, pointing out difficulties in basic education as the main cause. Studies on students monitoring are of great importance, because they contribute to the way we perceive the university freshmen, allowing us to understand their difficulties.