Physical knowledge in ecuadorian students fromupper basic education

Abstract

Research on alternative conceptions of students, in the face of many natural phenomena, as well as their causes and characteristics, shows that after many years of schooling, even more than a decade, in  which  students  have  been  taught  the  correct  conceptions,  these  continue  to  have  alternative conceptions  that  do  not  correspond  to  the  scientifically  accepted  ones.The  present  work  has  been developed  with  the  objective  of  evaluating  the  existence  of  alternative  conceptions  about  science  in Ecuadorian students graduated from the Higher Basic Education in the province of Cañar in Ecuador.For this, a research with an exploratory scope and a quantitative research methodology was projected. To obtaininformation, a multiple-choice test is used based on an exhaustive analysis in the curriculum of Sciences for Higher Basic Education and a thorough review of other tests that have been applied for these same purposes in other investigations. The results were analyzed and interpreted by constructing the frequency tables for each of the items, evidencing the existence of alternative ideas about science among the graduates of Higher Basic Education in the province of Cañar in Ecuador.