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In the Middle Education system of our country, the Ministry of Education (Medusa)
has recently implemented the educational model by skills. In this model, teachers are
looking for students to be builders of their own knowledge, and to develop skills and
abilities, in various academic areas.
From the teacher's point of view, in this educational model, the task is to generate in
the classroom learning environments that favor the development of these skills and abilities
in young students.
Most of the time, the teacher is required to use teaching / leaning techniques, which
correspond to the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), because
today, young students are considered digital natives.
Based on this ideas order, is Gamed out the present research entitled:
"Computational Simulations in the Development of Academic Skills of Physics' Twelfth
Grade Students" of Felix Olivares Contreras High School, during the school year 2019
The general objective of this research is to assess whether with the use of
computational simulations in the Physics courses, at the level of the Bachelor Degree in
Science, the development of academic skills in young students can be encouraged. The
research focused on basic academic skills, which a student's Bachelor Degree in Science
must possess, according to the Ministry of Education of our courtly
'He variables involved in this research are computational simulation, as an
independent variable, and academic skill, as the dependent. They were studied through a
mixed research methodology, in which data and information were obtained with
quantitative and qualitative characteristics.
Among the methodological aspects, there is a descriptive research, in which a non
experimentaltrans-sectionaldesign was applied, with a correlational scope.
This research was geographically delimited to the Felix Olivares Contreras High
School (FOC), during the school year 2019; the population of this study, is comprised of
the school's Physics teachers and students enrolled in the twelfth grade of the Bachelor's
Degree in Science of this institution. Similarly, another stratum of the population is the
Physics' regional supervisor of the Ministry of Education in the province of Chiriqui and
the coordinator's Physics department of Felix Olivares Contreras High School.
The data collection instruments were applied directly and based on the mixed design
of concunent data trianguiation (DITRIAC). The results obtained are presented
descriptively, through tables and graphs, which show the absolute and percentage
frequency distributions of the responses obtained by the subjects involved in the research.
The results obtained confirm that computer simulations are teaching / learning
techniques, which allows the development of academic skills in students of the Bachelor
Degree in Science. In addition, to be a motivating factor in the classroom and to encourage
interest in the study of science.
Based on the results obtained in this research, arise the proposal of a manual as a
methodological guide on how to use computational simulations, to develop the topics of
Physics, specifically those present in Physics' twelfth grade curriculum of the Ministry of
Education of our country.
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