O ensino remoto de química: desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

Chemistry is a discipline in the area of Natural Sciences that seeks to understand the composition, structure, properties and transformations of matter. Because it is a discipline that presents complex calculations, formulas and concepts, its contents end up being difficult for a portion of students to assimilate, even in face-to-face teaching. Recently, during the period of the Coronavirus pandemic, Chemistry classes became remote and this type of teaching was the subject of some research that sought to answer what are the positive and negative points associated with teaching Chemistry online. With that in mind, this research aimed to carry out an integrative literature review with international studies to synthesize on remote teaching of Chemistry, published between 2020 and 2021, to synthesize their main results. Five articles were analyzed, with research from different countries, and it was observed that two of them showed improvement in performance and students' preference for remote teaching of Chemistry, while another two showed difficulties in student learning and preference for face-to-face classes. One of the articles found no significant differences between remote teaching and face-to-face chemistry teaching. It is concluded, therefore, that despite having advantages over face-to-face teaching, remote teaching of Chemistry still needs to be improved to overcome the disadvantages