Jogos pedagógicos no ensino de Genética: Um estudo psicométrico

Abstract

One of the greatest difficulties of learning in genetics is related to the interaction contents and gene connection, mainly due to the high degree of abstraction of these contents. The use of pedagogical games can be a tool of pedagogical resource that helps the teacher in learning with genetic contents. The pedagogical game, throughout history, is portrayed as an intrinsic factor of human culture. The objective of this research was the use of two pedagogical games aimed at teaching and learning the contents of interaction and gene link in the third grade of high school, in a public school in the Municipality of Patos-PB. This is an action research, using a semi-structured questionnaire, with psychometric scale of the Likert type and validated, as to its reliability, by the Cronbach's alpha test. The results showed greater significance and considerable improvement in teaching and conceptual learning of interaction and genetic link contents, since Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the use of pedagogical games was 0.786, as opposed to the coefficient of 0.690 for theoretical expository classes. Therefore, pedagogical games, when well planned, constitute an excellent educational tool complementary to the didactics of the teacher in the classroom.