Metodologias ativas para cursos de Física 1

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the efficiency of two active teaching methodologies: Project-Based-Learning and Active Methodology of Group Exercise Resolution with Assistance of Monitors. This analysis was based on the application in two distinct classes of the same discipline; Basic Physics 1, composed of students from different engineering courses of the Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica (FEELT) of the Universidade Federal de Uberlâdia. The receptivity of the students, the procedures adopted by the subject teacher and the efficiency of the teaching methodologies were analyzed. The data for conducting the research were the class's pass and fail index in previous periods and in the periods of application of the active methodology and an opinion questionnaire. Through the analysis of the pass and fail indices it was found that in the semesters in which the active methodologies were employed, there was a satisfactory pass index, while in the questionnaire analysis it was possible to verify some characteristics of the students of the class, such as receptivity to methodology, group work, learning, academic disability, dedication and discipline, among others.