La experimentación como estrategia para el desarrollo de la competencia científica indagativa

Abstract

This research has the general purpose to develop the scientific inquiring competency taken as pedagogic strategy the experimentation in the fifth grade students of the school “Paramito Sede A”, to respond to the deficiencies related to this competency identified through the results gathered in the diagnostic test. For the design and This research has as general purpose to develop the scientific inquiring skill taking as pedagogical strategy the experimentation with fifth grade students of “Paramito Sede A school”, to respond to the deficiencies related to this competency identified through the results gathered in the diagnostic test. The type of investigation used for the design and application of this project was the case study with a mix approach, an investigation-action design, and an inductive-deductive method. The analysis of the information obtained proved that the pedagogic strategy used developed in the students the performances of the inquiring competency for proving, establishing and verifying hypothesis, data registration, instruments identification, argumentation, scientific method identification, results interpretation, graphic interpretation, graphic handling, scientific language, and information management in a systematic, organized and coherent way; when comparing the diagnostic test results to the final test, it showed that the students that were in a low level achieved a high level, and the students that were in a basic level achieved a superior level.