Procedimiento de evaluación formativa para el desarrollo de habilidades científicas. caso de estudio: estudiantes del grado segundo y tercero de la Escuela Rural sede D El Gacal.

Abstract

Formative evaluation is a permanent process based on the collection of evidence, to assess the degree of progress in the development of students' scientific skills from its analysis. The general objective of the research was: Analyze the repercussion of a formative evaluation procedure, for the development of scientific skills. Case study: Second and third grade students of the Sede D el Gacal Rural School. A study was carried out under the qualitative approach, with the case study method. The following data collection techniques were used: non-participant and participant observation, test, documentary analysis, content analysis and interview. The instruments were: field diary, test, data matrix, video and the interview script. The key informants were: Two girls from the second grade and two boys and a girl from the third grade between 7 to 9 years of age and the main teacher. The main results were: a) evaluative practices with few spaces for reflection by the teacher and a passivity of the students, since they focus specifically on results and not on processes and b) a formative evaluation procedure made up of eight was designed and applied. stages, evidencing the progress and improvement in the development of scientific skills and the learning of states of matter and their changes. It was concluded that: The evaluation procedure had a favorable impact on the development of scientific skills in second and third grade students.