STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF THE METHODOLOGY IN THE TEACHING OF PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS

Abstract

A research was carried out at the Faculty of Education and Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, with the purpose of analyzing the teaching methodology used by teachers in Physics subjects. To this end, a questionnaire was applied as a measurement instrument to a sample of students. The questionnaire covered various dimensions of the teaching methodology, such as the ease of understanding the material, the clarity of the explanations, the usefulness of the exercises and practices, and the didactics of the teacher. The collected data were processed using the statistical software SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) and the corresponding interpretations were made. The results of the study revealed the following: in terms of the ease of comprehension of the teaching material, the predominant qualifier was "low" with 44.4%, while both the qualifiers "medium" and "high" presented an equal percentage of 27.8%. In relation to the clarity of the teacher's explanations, the predominant qualifier was "low" with 43.5%, while 28.1% indicated a "high" qualifier. Regarding the usefulness of the exercises and practices, the predominant qualifier was "low" with 38.9%, while 27.8% indicated a "high" qualifier. Regarding the teacher's didactics, the most common qualifier was "medium" with 34.2%, while 32.4% indicated a "high" qualifier. Finally, concerning the main variable of the study, the methodology of teaching physics, the most predominant qualifier was "low" with 34.3%, while the qualifier "high" represented 32.4%.

Keywords: Physics teaching, teaching methodology, didactics