Evolution students' visions of science during the first year of Engineering and Science carreers

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the presence of visions of science in the young people who enter the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (FCEFyN), of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), and their evolution after they attend the first year. A questionnaire was used with the pretest technique (ingresant stu-dents) and the posttest (students with the first year studied) on the operational aspects of scientific work, already validated in other works. They then linked their options with the Deformed Visions of Science (VDC) proposed by Fernández et al. (2002). The results show an outstanding presence of inductive empiricism in its procedural aspects (method). In relation to the evolution of the VDC after the first year of studies, there is a significant growth of inductive empiricism in its conceptual aspects; the rest of the visions is transparent to the instruction. As a research methodology, a quantitative approach (questionnaire results) and an interpretative instance were used to link the questionnaire with the VDC.