Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1965. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

This study aims to discuss the teaching portfolio and learning efficacy gained after integrating K12 digital school information into the biology lessons of junior high school. The research method is to divide students into two groups: two classes of 7th grade junior high students are the experimental group, which receive K12 integrated teaching; and three classes of 7th grade junior high students are the control group, which receive traditional teaching. The experimental course is ¡§human digestion and circulation system,¡¨ consisting of 19 units, lasting for 6 weeks. During the experimental process, the researcher collected diverse types of evaluation information, including observations, peer reviews, student works, learning slips, review questions, and surveys, in order to give research findings greater objectivity and accuracy. Results suggest that, in terms of learning efficacy, the overall learning efficacy of the experimental group is better than that of the control group. Among all, there is a significant difference between students having moderate and low scores. Regarding learning attitudes, there is no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group. However, many students hold positive attitudes towards K12 regarding homework, unit assessment, and learning slips. Regarding teaching applications, upon first use of K12 support teaching, there were difficulties experienced in installing the digital teaching materials. However, as they become more accustomed to the use of K12, they could easily implement the ideals of diversified evaluation. In sum, the K12 digital school is a helpful auxiliary tool for teaching.

A review of literature concerning teaching-learning media and the factors that influence the choice of teaching-learning media was conducted, in order to establish which teaching-learning media teachers are using to present a lesson, especially in OBE. The classification of teaching-learning media by different media specialists was looked into, before it was applied in a Biology lesson. The plant cell and animal cell sketches were used as examples to draw up transparencies, overlay-transparencies and to build models. An empirical investigation was undertaken to investigate which teaching-learning media teachers are using and why they are using certain teaching-learning media. It also investigated the role teaching-learning media plays in presenting a lesson and what can be done to help teachers to use more effective teaching-learning media in teaching Biology as part of Natural Science in the senior phase of OBE. According to the investigation teachers seem to stay with the traditional teaching-learning media, such as the chalkboard and textbook, for they are easily available, user-friendly and cost saving. However, there is a need that more courses should be offered, where teachers can be trained how to use certain teaching-learning media and how to create their own teaching-learning media. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

A review of literature concerning teaching-learning media and the factors that influence the choice of teaching-learning media was conducted, in order to establish which teaching-learning media teachers are using to present a lesson, especially in OBE. The classification of teaching-learning media by different media specialists was looked into, before it was applied in a Biology lesson. The plant cell and animal cell sketches were used as examples to draw up transparencies, overlay-transparencies and to build models. An empirical investigation was undertaken to investigate which teaching-learning media teachers are using and why they are using certain teaching-learning media. It also investigated the role teaching-learning media plays in presenting a lesson and what can be done to help teachers to use more effective teaching-learning media in teaching Biology as part of Natural Science in the senior phase of OBE. According to the investigation teachers seem to stay with the traditional teaching-learning media, such as the chalkboard and textbook, for they are easily available, user-friendly and cost saving. However, there is a need that more courses should be offered, where teachers can be trained how to use certain teaching-learning media and how to create their own teaching-learning media. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

Resumo: A educação sempre será motivo de preocupação em nossa sociedade. Com relação à Educação em Ciências, a preocupação engloba a necessidade de, por meio desse ensino, promover habilidades cognitivas que permitam aprendizagens mais duradouras. A nossa investigação faz parte de um projeto mais amplo, que tem como meta a melhoria da qualidade do ensino oferecida por uma escola estadual de ensino médio e, consequentement, uma mais significativa e integral formação de seus alunos. Durante a pesquisa, propusemos e conduzimos uma sequencia didática para a aplicação do tema Energia na disciplina de biologia em um grupo de 21 alunos do 1º ano do ensino médio. O nosso objetivo foi, a partir dessa sequencia didática, baseada em atividades práticas e contextualizadas, verificar quais habilidades cognitivas, ou do pensamento, foram desenvolvidas pelos alunos durante o processo de ensino aprendizagem. Diante dos resultados obtidos, podemos concluir que as atividades práticas e contextualizadas contribuíram para a melhoria das habilidades cognitivas dos alunos, assim como para o desenvolvimento de novas linguagens e formalização de conceitos. Partindo das potencialidades dessas atividades e dos obstáculos que o professor enfrenta para realizá-las, em busca por melhores condições para os trabalhos práticos e contextualizados, este deve ultrapassar várias barreiras, que vão desde a organização física de um laboratório e a compra de material necessário à realização das atividades, até o envolvimento de colegas de outras áreas e a luta por conquistas políticas que lhe permitam trabalhar melhor. / Abstract: Education is always a concern in our society. Regarding Science education, concern includes the need to promote Science cognitive skills that allow more durable learnings. Our research is part is part of a larger project, which aims to improve the quality of education offered by a Brazilian public high school and consequently a more significant and integral formation of students. During research, we propose and conduct a didactic sequence for implementing the Energy theme in the discipline of Biology in a group of 21 students from 1st year of high school. From that didactic sequence, based on practical and contextualized activities, our goal was to verify which cognitive or thought skills the students developed during the processes of teaching/learning. According to the research results, we can conclude that the practice and contextualized activities contributed to the improvement of cognitive skills of students as well as for developing new languages and formalization of concepts. Using the potential of these activities and the obstacles faced to teach them, teacher must in his search for better conditions for the practical and contextualized work to overcome several obstacles, rangig from the physical organization of a laboratory, the purchase of equipment necessary to perform activities, until the involvement of colleagues from other areas and the struggle for political victories, enabling him to work better. / Orientador: Jehud Bortollozi / Coorientador: Ana Maria de Andrade Caldeira / Banca: Alvaro Lorencini Junior / Banca: Fernando Bastos / Mestre

Effective professional development offers opportunities for teachers to reflect on their practices, modify and implement changes in the classroom, and eventually impact students? learning. However, professional development must be evaluated to determine whether the desired results are actually occurring in the classroom. The Program for Research and Evaluation for Public Schools, Inc. (PREPS) created a Biology I Workshop series to assist school districts in Mississippi in aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment that will ultimately improve student achievement in the classroom and performance on the current high-stakes test. This study evaluated the PREPS Biology I Subject Area workshops by using Thomas Guskey?s evaluation model as a guide for the process. This study used a mixed-method design and collected data from three primary sources: the PREPS Final Evaluation Form completed at the conclusion of workshops, a questionnaire created by the researcher, and interviews with six-case study teacher participants selected from the results of the questionnaire. According to the ratings and comments written on the two instruments and supporting evidence from the case-study teachers, the participants of the Biology I workshop found the workshops to be effective for all five levels of Guskey?s evaluation model. The content was rated effective because the workshop materials were aligned to the curriculum frameworks and were focused on using student learning to improve student achievement. Working through the activities rather than simply being told about them and having a successful classroom biology teacher as a presenter were the factors that contributed to the increase in the participants? knowledge and skills. Organizational results indicate that the workshop was effective in that the goals of the workshop series aligned with the schools? mission and goals for student learning. Several issues, such as financial support, time for collaboration with peers, and reward opportunity for successful teachers, were rated low in school organizational structures. The results also indicate that the PREPS Biology I workshops had a positive impact on student achievement both in the classroom and on the Mississippi Biology I Subject Area Test for the schools that implemented the teaching units and strategies.

Orientador: José Misael Ferreira do Vale / Banca: Fernando Bastos / Banca: Jerry Magno Ferreira Penha / Banca: Deocleciano Bittencourt Rosa / Banca: João Luiz Gasparin / Resumo: O objeto de estudos desta investigação, em sentido geral, é a teoria do ensino de Ciências e de Biologia na educação básica. O trabalho partiu da hipótese principal de que era possível situar, articular e fundamentar, a partir dos postulados gerais da Pedagogia Histórico0Crítica e da Didática Geral, um conjunto de princípios metodológicos para o ensino de Ciências e Biologia sistematizados e desenvolvidos para servirem de orientação e critério para as atividades docentes no ensino escolar destas disciplinas, são eles: contextualizaçção, problematização, interdisciplinaridade, instrumentalização, enfoque histórico-sociológico dos conteúdos, adequação cognitiva, equilíbrio entre procedimentos de transmissão e de assimilação, dialogicidade, totalidade, sistematização, aplicação, enfoque evolutivo, enfoque ambiental, ênfase em educação para a saúde e ênfase nos métodos das ciências naturais. A partir do método dialético de investigação, fizemos a articulação lógica destes princípios metodológicos com os demais elementos fundamentais do processo didático escolar: objetivos, conteúdos, métodos, aprendizagem, ensino, condições e meios para o ensino. Bem como, estabelecemos as relações destes princípios metodológicos com os princípios gerais da lógica dialética e os princípios gerais da Didática. O resultado geral a que chegamos foi a proposição inicial de uma teoria da Didática de Ciências e de Biologia para a educação básica na perspectiva da PHC, articulada a uma teoria da Didática Geral fundamentada no materialismo histórico e dialético. / Abstract: This investigation studies goal, in a general sense, is the teaching of science and biology in basic education theory. The job started from the mean hypothesis, that it was possible to locate, articulate and based on, from general rules of historical-critical pedagogy and the General Didactics, a joint of methodology, principles for the science and biology teaching, grouped and developed to serve as management and ways for the classes activities in the scholar teaching of these subjects, they are: contextualization, troubles, inter-disciplines, instrument, approach history-sociology of the contents, adjusts, balance among procedure of transmition and the assimilation, dialogues, totality, system, aplication, evaluative focus, environment focus, emphasis in education for health and in methodology of the natural sciences. From the methodology for the investigation, we had a clear articulation of these methodological principles with the other fundamental elements of the practical process: goals, contents, methodology, learning, teaching, condition and means for the teaching. Such as, we stablish, the relations these methodology principles with the general principles of dialect logic and the general principles of Didatics. The general results we are approached was the initial purpose of the theory of the science and the biology for the basis education in the perspective of PHC, joint to the General Didactics theory fundamental on historical and dialect materialism. / Doutor

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-08-10T13:45:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RENATO ALVES DE SOUZA.pdf: 1501933 bytes, checksum: a0e3ff184899d93d9c27dfc278e7f917 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T13:45:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RENATO ALVES DE SOUZA.pdf: 1501933 bytes, checksum: a0e3ff184899d93d9c27dfc278e7f917 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-15 / This present work analyzes the genetic questions available in the yellow test of nature sciences and its technologies of the National High School Examination (ENEM) from the years 1998 to 2015 and after compares the genetics content collected in the textbooks. The questions were classified according to the National Curricular Parameters for the Secondary Education and the genetic areas that were established by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq. For the selection of the books, a survey was made of the two most adopted authors by the state schools of Goiânia - Go. Regarding the private schools, the two schools that performed best in the ENEM of 2015 were chosen. In relation about the two apostilled books, were selected some schools that they arranged to provide this material. The data of the ENEM and the books were tabulated and organized into spreadsheets. Descriptive statistics were used using the Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-wallis, Spearman and chi-square correlations to present the results. During the 18 years ENEM, 40 questions were identified involving the genetic content. It was noticed an increase in the frequency of this content from the year 2007. The questions on molecular genetics and biotechnology / genetic engineering were the most frequent in the exam. By linking the contents collected in the ENEM with the selected books / handouts, the results point out that textbooks need to be reformulated frequently as they are fundamental instruments in the teaching-learning process. With this study it was possible to know better which areas of genetics are most required in this examination and above all to realize the importance of the teaching of genetics of quality for the ENEM, since it is of extreme importance for the students of the Middle School. / O presente trabalho analisa as questões de Genética disponíveis na prova amarela de Ciências da Natureza e suas Tecnologias do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) dos anos de 1998 a 2015 e depois compara o conteúdo cobrado de Genética nos livros didáticos. As questões foram classificadas de acordo com os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio e as áreas da Genética estabelecidas pelo Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq. Para a seleção dos livros foi feita uma pesquisa dos dois autores mais adotados pelas escolas estaduais de Goiânia-Go. Em relação às escolas privadas escolheu-se por duas escolas que tiveram um melhor desempenho no ENEM de 2015. Em relação aos dois livros apostilados, foram selecionadas as escolas que se dispuseram a fornecer o material. Os dados das questões do ENEM e dos livros foram tabulados e organizados em planilhas. Foi utilizada estatística descritiva utilizando os testes U de Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, correlação de Spearman e do qui-quadrado para apresentar os resultados. Durante os 18 anos de ENEM foram identificadas 40 questões envolvendo o conteúdo genética. Percebe-se um aumento na frequência desse conteúdo a partir do ano de 2007. As questões sobre Genética Molecular e Biotecnologia/Engenharia Genética foram as mais frequentes no exame. Ao relacionar os conteúdos cobrados no ENEM com os livros/apostilas selecionados, os resultados apontam que os livros didáticos precisam ser reformulados com frequência por serem instrumentos fundamentais no processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Com esse estudo foi possível conhecer melhor quais áreas da Genética são mais requisitadas nesse exame e sobretudo perceber a importância do ensino da Genética de qualidade para o ENEM, por ser de extrema importância para os alunos do Ensino Médio.

Este estudo se fundamenta na construção de um modelo didático de formulação de perguntas que atenda às demandas educativas dos alunos nas aulas de Ciências e Biologia. Esse modelo didático tem como unidade central o discurso interativo entre professor e alunos para atribuição de significados compartilhados, que denominamos de discurso reflexivo. Consideramos que uma perspectiva de formação continuada reflexiva, investigativa e crítica possibilita que o professor implemente o modelo didático de formulação de perguntas provocando efeitos significativos nos processos cognitivos e interativos em sala de aula. Adotando o modelo didático de formulação de perguntas, os professores promovem modificações na sua postura pedagógica frente ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem das ciências, bem como re-significam as suas concepções sobre o currículo e seus elementos: conteúdos, objetivos educacionais, atividades de aprendizagem e avaliação. / This study is based upon the construction of a didactic model of questions formulation to meet the educational demands of students during the classes of Sciences and Biology. This didactic model has as its core unit the interactive discourse between the teacher and the students for the attribution of shared meanings, that we call reflexive discourse. We consider that the perspective of a reflexive, investigatory and critical continuing educational enables the teacher to implement the didactic model of questions formulation which will provoke meaningful effects in the cognitive and interactive process in the classroom. By adopting a didactic model of questions formulation, the teachers promote changes in their pedagogical attitude toward the teaching and learning sciences, and give new meaning to the their conceptions of the curriculum and its elements: contents, educational objectives, learning activities and evaluation.

A prática de ensino dos conteúdos da Biologia como disciplina do Ensino Médio apresenta muitos obstáculos à aprendizagem, entre eles o de não desenvolver no estudante a visão holística e articulada quando se trata da abordagem da micro e macrobiologia. Isso favorece a construção de uma visão fragmentada de um sistema complexo e interdependente. Como forma de superar essa dificuldade, propõe-se a utilização dos mapas conceituais por alunos do 1º e 3º Ano do Ensino Médio de uma escola da rede particular de ensino de Pindamonhangaba - SP, objetivando oferecer uma prática pedagógica que, aliada à exploração dos mapas conceituais, crie condições para que o aluno construa o conhecimento de Biologia, desenvolvendo uma visão holística dos fenômenos com suas entidades e processos. A pesquisa foi aplicada em quatro etapas e realizada pelos alunos organizados em grupos. Inicialmente, foram desenvolvidas atividades para a familiarização com a ferramenta, utilizando-se o programa CmapTools. Em seguida, os alunos completaram mapas previamente construídos, inserindo conceitos e relações disponíveis em estacionamento, além de construírem um mapa a partir de texto do material didático adotado e completaram esse mapa a partir de pesquisa, o que buscou, entre outras coisas, o desenvolvimento da autonomia na busca do conhecimento. Finalmente, foram construídos quatro mapas a partir de questões-focais, elaboradas com intuito de buscar a reconciliação integrativa na construção de conhecimento dos alunos. Os resultados revelam que a maioria dos alunos conseguiu integrar os conceitos e relações necessárias para responder a questão focal, permitindo o protagonismo dos estudantes, a aprendizagem significativa e a construção colaborativa do conhecimento. / The practice of teaching the contents of Biology as a discipline of High School presents many obstacles to learning, among them the non-developing of the student\'s holistic and articulated vision when dealing with the approach of micro and macrobiology. This favors the construction of a fragmented view of a complex and interdependent system. As a way to overcome this difficulty, it is proposed to use the conceptual maps by students of the 1st and 3rd Year of High School in a private school in Pindamonhangaba - SP, aiming to offer a pedagogical practice which with the exploration of conceptual maps, creates conditions for the student to build the biology\'s knowledge, developing a holistic view of the phenomena with their entities and processes. The research was applied in four stages and carried out by the students organized in groups. Initially, activities were developed to familiarize with the tool, using the CmapTools software. Next, the students completed maps previously constructed; inserting concepts and available relations in stagnation, besides constructing a map from text of the didactic material adopted and completed this map from research, which sought, among other things, the development of autonomy in the pursuit of knowledge. Finally, four maps were constructed based on focal questions, elaborated with the purpose of seeking the integrative reconciliation in the construction of students\' knowledge. The results reveal that most of the students were able to integrate the concepts and relations necessary to answer the focal question, allowing the student\'s protagonism, meaningful learning and the collaborative construction of knowledge.