Uma análise das disciplinas do ciclo básico do Curso de Licenciatura em Química Campus Paulistana: desempenho estatístico , observação e perspectivas

Abstract

Disciplines related to mathematics and natural sciences are often seen as complex and with a high rate of low grades and failures, as seen in the analyzed bibliographies. Bearing in mind the importance that such contents and knowledge have for a chemistry degree course, in addition to the role in building knowledge for a chemistry teacher, the present work aimed to: analyze performance, perceptions and perspectives of the basic disciplines related to specific training of the chemistry degree course: Basic Physics, Basic Biology, Calculus I and General Chemistry I. The performance analysis is very relevant, since, as discussed in some of the works analyzed, failures are one of the main reasons for dropping out of course. It was observed that, even among students who are still in the course, the number of students who repeated at least one of the 4 subjects was quite high. Among the curricular components analyzed, Basic Biology and Basic Physics were the ones with the lowest and highest number of failures, respectively. For the interviewees, the subject that they fail most repeatedly is also Basic Physics, however in their case it should not possibly be more of a setback for their education, since most are related to the first classes