Written production of high school students in a PISA Science question with a Catalytic Converter theme

Authors

  • Jeferson Ferreti Ribas Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • FABIELE CRISTIANE DIAS BROIETTI STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56117/resbenq.2022.v3.e032204

Keywords:

Written Production. PISA. Scientific Literacy.

Abstract

This article presents a study, of a qualitative nature, whose objective was to analyze the written production of high school students in a PISA Science question that involves chemical concepts, with a Catalytic Converter theme. Through the methodological procedures of Content Analysis, it was possible to investigate the knowledge about scientific evidence manifested in the responses of 101 students from the 3rd grade, based on the understanding of the information contained in the support and in the statement of the question. The written productions were analyzed according to the expected answers according to the PISA references and grouped into 6 categories, in which it was found that only 34.65% of the investigated students answered the question correctly. The other students (65.35% of those investigated) were not able to use the support information (text and illustration) and the statement of the question in order to externalize the phenomenon represented in order to produce answers based on scientific evidence. Given these results, it appears that most students had difficulties in mobilizing some aspects of Scientific Literacy when building their answers to the question, such as decisive scientific concepts, investigation processes and attitudes and skills necessary for decision-making.

Published

2022-05-12

Issue

Section

Artigos Científicos