MOTIVATION AND PERCEPTION OF THE LEARNING OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AFTER APPROACHING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS THROUGH THE METHODS OF PEER INSTRUCTION AND DIALOGUE EXHIBITION
Dialogued Expository Class. Peer instruction. Biology teaching. Motivation. Learning perception.
Science teaching in brazilian basic education has been taking place with a predominance of theoretical lectures, however, many criticisms have been made to this situation due the lack of practical activities and the characteristics of this teaching method, which encourages the passivity of students and the concepts memorization without the necessary critical reflection, making motivation and scientific literacy more difficult. In Biology teaching, the motivation for knowledge is related to observation, investigation and the ability to critically reflect on nature aspects. Therefore, it is important to rethink the way of teaching, adopting teaching-learning methods that stimulate the development of a critical sense and an investigative spirit. To change this reality, we believe that the adoption of active methods, such as Peer Instruction (IpP), associated with Investigative Teaching, can be a differential that stimulates the motivation to learn, the perception of learning, proactivity and collaborative student work. In this sense, this research aimed to apply the IpP in the teaching of Biology and to compare the motivation and perception of the learning of high school students, after approaching themes related to Sexually Transmitted Diseases, through the methods of the Dialogued Expository Class (DEC) and IP Data were collected from the answers of anonymous questionnaires answered by 94 students from the 3rd grade of high school at Dom Pedro I State School, located in the city of Aparecida de Goiânia, in the state of Goiás, and were compared using the Exact test of Fischer (95% CI). Regarding motivation, it is inferred that the insertion of the IpP impacted the students' point of view about the importance of dialogue for the learning process; in the other variables, we did not identify significant differences. Regarding the perception of learning, we did not find differences between the methods applied. Thus, it was possible to conclude that both the DEC method and the IpP method contributed to the students' perception in the understanding of the contents covered and that motivation was positively impacted after using the IpP method.