A Química no SSA/UPE: análise das questões sob um olhar de documentos oficiais brasileiros.

Abstract

The University of Pernambuco's Serial Assessment System (UPE) has become one of the main assessment processes for admission to higher education in Pernambuco. We understand that the evaluation process is inseparable from pedagogical practice, due to this relevance this research has the general objective of analyzing the Chemistry issues of UPE's SSA, observing probable curricular and structural approximations of the event along with official documents and the methodological aspects of chemical knowledge , in the range of years 2013 to 2024. Having broad relevance as the number of registrants only grows annually and presented, in the year 2023, its first change to the SSA 1 test, where now the questions must directly encompass the guidelines on knowledge scientific linked to specific competencies and skills, as guided by the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC). The methodology for this research focused on analyzing the I. chemical knowledge present in the questions and in the candidate manual; II. The amount and main content charged; III. Analyze the structural aspects and the presence of mass culture in the issues; IV. Aspects about chemical knowledge are related to the contextual and conceptual form through Jonstone's levels of chemical knowledge, which are symbolic, microscopic and macroscopic; V. Analyzing the conceptual aspects of chemistry. The document research carried out covers the quantitative and qualitative form of analysis and considering all phases of selection following careful reading and categorization, we can verify the levels of chemical knowledge, according to Johnstone's triplet, the structural aspects, focused on the use of mass culture , the conceptual aspects, observing whether the questions establish relationships between chemical and social knowledge, based on the prevalence or homogeneous division of content, as well as the levels of chemical knowledge and conceptualization, according to the skills and abilities suggested by the BNCC. Thus, we realized that some contents stood out in frequency over others, and that unfortunately mass culture is still little addressed in the issues and its low frequency covers the SSA1 questions. From the data analyzed, the questions according to the triplet, we observed that the level of symbolic knowledge encompassed eighty-one questions, we believe because it focused on symbols, chemical equations and formulas. We also note that the conceptualization related to chemistry in the industry included eighty of the questions. We also observed that several specific skills can be easily identified in the 2023 SSA1 questions. Thus, we can observe that the preparation of chemistry questions in the Serial Assessment System has been undergoing variations conforms not only to official documents, but also to the direct influence of society and its needs.