Habilidades de pensamiento científico de los estudiantes de grado sexto de las instituciones educativas San Antonio de Ráquira y Técnica Agrícola de Paipa del Departamento de Boyacá

Abstract

In this research we present the scientific thinking skills detected in sixth grade students, their level of performance and how the teaching-learning process of the natural sciences responds to the formation of these skills in the Educational Institutions San Antonio de Ráquira and Technical Agricultural of Paipa. We worked with sixth grade students due to at this time they start the secondary basic cycle, after of eleven years, children develop the ability to think causally in a scientific way, that is, they initiate the critical construction of scientific thought.

The scientific thinking skills identified were: transfer of scientific knowledge to the environment, processing and interpretation of data, hypothesis formulation, experimental design, analysis, prediction and inference; each one of them were identified in the cognitive test, and are an excellent reference for other teachers to have a frame of reference that allows them to interpret them and become aware of how to strength them, from spaces that promote motivation towards a scientific attitude, as well as the design of didactic strategies supported in the PBL with a systematic process that allows progress from an incipient level to a more advanced level, because they possess the capabilities and it is the teacher’s task to build spaces and strategies to exercise them and transform them into skills that allow the student solve problems assertively.

This study led to reflection on improving the ways of teaching, which would involve training teachers on scientific thinking skills.