Integração de métodos modernos no ensino de genética mendeliana durante o bloqueio pandêmico COVID-19

Abstract

For students from different levels of education, understanding genetics is abstract and difficult, presenting different problems in the significant learning of this science, especially in the remote form, a fact evidenced by several studies. Thus, the aim of this study was to verify the effectiveness of active methodologies combined with traditional lectures on classical genetics contents, in addition to evaluating the students’ perception of the effectiveness of these methods. Therefore, a quali-quantitative approach was used to describe and explore the results obtained in the research with 106 students from the technical education classes of the IFPI. The study was conducted experimentally using the design of a control group without didactic teaching methodologies and a group of students assigned to experimental groups in which participatory teaching and learning methods were applied. The results indicate that the experimental group presented more relevant results in the institution’s official evaluation averages, with final values per class (9.68, 9.6 and 9.63). In conclusion, reconciling traditional teaching methodologies with an active education strategy, even remotely, is recommended as a useful approach for teaching and learning genetics.