THE USE OF CONCEPTUAL MAP FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT SOLUTIONS
Chemistry Teaching; Teaching Solutions; Significant Learning; Conceptual maps.
Aiming at the effective learning of students regarding the theme Solutions, this research intends to develop an educational product containing a didactic sequence that will use conceptual maps as pedagogical strategy. In order to make possible the application of these maps, this work has as theoretical base the Theory of Meaningful Learning of Ausubel. Also, we will take as references, works of Joseph Novak, which contemplates significant learning for the development of conceptual maps. For the analysis of conceptual maps, we will use assumptions of a work developed by Trindade. In order to be able to learn concepts, the teacher must identify, according to the Ausubel Theory, students' prior knowledge, subscriber concepts, and then add new knowledge that may be related to pre-existing ones. In addition to the identification of previous knowledge, for learning to be meaningful, Joseph Novak mentions that the student can construct concept maps in order to organize the concepts of a certain subject. In the construction of the Conceptual Map, the student must have clear his central idea, organize the concepts in a hierarchical way and relate them correctly, through connecting words, according to what has been learned. The methodological course was applied in a class of 2nd year of High School, belonging to a State Public School of Ceará. The learning process had three meetings, each of which had three classes. The classes for the development of the didactic sequence had moments of expositive form and others that happened in a practical way. As a final, an explanatory video was applied on the importance and construction of conceptual maps, in order to make students understand how to construct their own map. In addition to the video, examples of conceptual maps have also been demonstrated in an expositive way. After this explanation, the students received two sheets of craft to construct their conceptual maps. Next, considerations were made about the constructed maps and, later, they were asked to rework their maps. This work is in phase of analysis of data, which are occurring from the categories quoted by Trindade.