Competencia de estudiantes de secundaria para aplicar ideas sobre el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas

  1. García-Rodeja Gayoso, Isabel 1
  2. Silva García, Elba Tamara 1
  3. Sesto Varela, Vanessa 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Journal:
Enseñanza de las ciencias: revista de investigación y experiencias didácticas

ISSN: 0212-4521,  2174-6486

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 38

Issue: 1

Pages: 67-85

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5565/REV/ENSCIENCIAS.2733 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

We analyze the competence of tenth-grade students (specialty in Science and Arts) and ninth-grade students with generalized learning difficulties when applying ideas related to the functioning of ecosystems and the patterns of causal thinking that they activate in their explanations. An open-ended questionnaire was used to collect data. The results show that most students had difficulties to apply ideas such as the role of decomposer organisms, the energy flow as well as the concept of chemical energy. The results also suggest that familiarity with concepts is key to activate patterns of complex causal reasoning. Among the study’s didactic implications, the need to make explicit the relationship between the contents of biology, chemistry and physics is thus pointed out.

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Al proyecto EDU2015-66643-C2-2-P financiado por el Ministerio de Econom?a y Competitividad, y al proyecto EDU2017-82915-R del Plan Nacional de la Agencia Estatal de Investigaci?n y el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (AEI/FEDER, UE).

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