Desarrollo de habilidades básicas de pensamiento crítico en el contexto de la enseñanza de la física universitaria

Abstract

This article shows the results of an investigation oriented to generate and evaluate a pedagogical proposal that positively affects the level of skills as critical thinkers of college students from the area of physics. Detected the absence of such skills in students of first semesters of engineering, it was proposed to generate teaching strategies that contribute to the solution of this matter. An educational intervention based on theories of teaching thinking skills was designed. This was applied to a course designated as the experimental sample, having also a control group, and the most appropriate way for measuring the level of critical thinking skills was selected. Tests at the beginning and end of the educational intervention were applied, the data was statistically processed. The results show significant positive changes in some of the aspects evaluated.