Causas do baixo aproveitamento pedagógico na disciplina de ciências naturais: caso da Escola Primária Completa de Cocomela, província de Maputo, 2018 à 2020

Abstract

The present study aimed to understand the causes of low academic achievement in the subject of Natural Sciences at the Cocomela Complete Primary School, located in the Namaacha district. In terms of methodology, a case study was chosen for data interpretation through a mixed approach, both qualitative and quantitative, characterizing itself as action research since intervention was carried out with 6th grade students, in which we applied the Natural Sciences test whose questions were mapped to the contents of the subject to assess their level of cognition. Data collection was carried out through interviews with managers to two managers (1 man and 1 woman) and five teachers (2 men and 3 women) and a test to students (40 students, 20 men and 20 women) with the objective of assessing the level of cognition regarding the contents of Natural Sciences. In summary, the study had forty-seven (47) participants. We realized through the interview with the managers that there is work being done to reverse the scenario of low academic achievement through awareness-raising among teachers and students for greater commitment to their tasks and obligations. We realized through the interview with the teachers that they face enormous difficulties in teaching certain contents of the Natural Sciences subject due to insufficient teaching materials or teaching aids such as: maps of the reproductive, circulatory, digestive, and excretory systems, the human body, plant parts, and student books, causing them to resort to producing teaching materials with local materials, which in a way reduces the quality of information and visibility of the same. Regarding the test applied to the students, we realized that not all of them answered the questions completely, with many spelling errors and difficulties in interpretation. Associated with the problems mentioned above, reading and writing constitute a difficulty for many students(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)