Learn about the research from the latest UC Education Colloquia
December 9, 2024
Check out the topics of Yefrin Ariza and Rosario Escribano's presentations here.
Sharing and discussing research findings by the Faculty's academics is the objective of the Education Colloquium Cycles, meetings organized by the UC Education Research Ecosystem, made up of the Research Department of the Faculty of Education, the Doctorate in Education and the Center for Educational Policies and Practices, CEPPE.
Check out the latest presentations from the 2024 Colloquium Cycle here:
On October 30, academic Yefrin Ariza presented his study entitled “Science teaching oriented towards modeling and the nature of science: implicit relationship or empirical coincidence?”. This research analyzes how science teaching, based on modeling, can influence the understanding of the Nature of Science (NoS) in secondary school students in Chile. Ariza highlighted the need to transform traditional teaching models so that students develop a critical and reflective vision of science.
The purpose of the study is to investigate whether teaching methods that use modeling impact the way students perceive science, helping them to see it as a dynamic and critical process rather than a set of static facts. This research responds to the “persistence of teaching methods that tend to generate rigid and uncritical views of scientific knowledge, affecting students’ ability to understand scientific processes and methods in depth,” said the academic.
On November 20, academic Rosario Escribano presented “Profiles of teaching practices in low-performing schools: an analysis of latent classes using classroom observation.”
Escribano presented the main findings of a study recently published in the scientific journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement.
This research collected information from 256 schools classified as low-performing by the Education Quality Agency, where more than 1.200 classrooms of teachers from the first and second cycle of basic education were observed. The objective of the research was to analyze the quality of various teaching practices described as essential practices for carrying out quality teaching according to the literature, and to be able to find teaching profiles that can describe teaching styles rather than just isolated practices.
