Góndola, Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de las Ciencias (Jun 2016)

Proposition of diagnostic tool to provide indicatives about the understanding of biological knowledge and their interrelationships

  • Ana Maria de Andrade Caldeira,
  • Paloma Rodrigues Siebert,
  • André Luis Corrêa,
  • Fernanda Aparecida Meglhioratti,
  • Fernanda da Rocha Brando,
  • Fúlvia Eloá Maricato,
  • Lourdes Aparecida Della Justina,
  • Mariana Aparecida Bologna Soares de Andrade,
  • Thais Benetti de Oliveira,
  • Thais Gimenez da Silva Augusto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.gdla.2016.v11n1.a9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 128 – 146

Abstract

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This paper describes the developing and validating steps of a Likert’s evaluative scale. The aim is to systematize the answers of Biological Sciences students about to: 1) Understanding or notunderstanding thescientific knowledge; and 2).If there is a relationship amongscientific concepts in order to contemplate a systemic thinking about natural phenomena. The described scale was validated by Cronbach's Alpha tests (α = 0.741), KMO (0.779) and Bartlett (0.000) and a Multivariate Analysis was fulfilled, typePrincipal Component Analysis (PCA). We understood that this kind of instrument allows a large amount of data to be collected and it groups can be compared efficiently, which justified the development of evaluative scale presented here.

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