Pandemia do novo coronavírus: impactos no desempenho escolar dos discentes de Química da Unidade Escolar Maria Cândida (Várzea Grande - PI)

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic has had major impacts on the world population, affecting various areas of society, but none of them were as affected as the education sector, especially among students and teachers, who had to radically change the dynamics in the school environment. The present work was developed with the objective of analyzing the impacts of the current pandemic on the educational performance of Chemistry students, from the Maria Cândida School Unit, located in the municipality of Várzea Grande-PI. The research developed is based both on the qualitative nature when dealing with the pandemic context and characterization of the school environment and on the quantitative nature when referring to the survey of indicators of the quality of teaching and the performance of the subject investigated, which were collected and mapped, comparing the pre- and pandemic periods themselves. When dealing with the pandemic period, it was possible to observe a greater number of dropouts, a smaller number of students enrolled and a greater increase in annual averages when dealing with the Chemistry discipline. Thus, after completing the execution of the research, a record of the strategies applied in the educational process of the school studied was obtained, emphasizing those that minimized the impacts of the pandemic, such as the use of diversified methodologies, discussions and groups in the WhatsApp application and realization of experiments with alternative materials, which brought a contribution to the confrontation of crises that affect the routine of educational institutions