Students’ engagement in Physics lesson: proposal and discussion of an analysis tool

Abstract

In this paper, we present an analysis tool proposal to investigate students' engagement in inquiry-based teaching. For this proposal, called as engagement indicators, we considered studies that focuses on the students’ involvement with classroom problems and their resolution, the idea of productive disciplinary engagement. For this purpose, we considered elements of working in group and the construction and execution of work plans, besides emotional aspects that intermix these processes. To evaluate if that tool is suitable for use in research, we analyzed a class that happened with a high school class. The results show that the tool allows to understand the development of this engagement and its relationship with the construction of understanding by the students. In this sense, we understand that the indicators of engagement can also be of great value for the analysis of the constitution of the classroom as a community of practices.

Keywords

• Engajamento
• Ferramenta de análise
• Interações em sala de aula
• Ensino por investigação