EXPERIMENTAL TASKS IN CHEMISTRY TO IMPROVE RESEARCH SKILLS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Abstract

The objective of the work was to apply contextualized experimental tasks in chemistry to
improve the investigative skills of perception, instrumental and thinking in students of the
Professional Academic School of Civil Engineering of the National University of
Cajamarca. The method was inductive, applied, pre-experimental design, applied to 60
students. The methodology consisted of a pre and a post-test, with an intervention program
of three experimental tasks. The results were that: the students improved their perceptual,
instrumental and thinking skills from 42,25 % to 79,53 %, from 40,03 % to 82,05 % and
from 41,13 % to 73,16 %, respectively. The statistical t test of student was carried out,
finding the value of "experimental t of 73,44 greater than the theoretical t, with a significant
difference between the means, concluding that the experimental tasks contextualized in
chemistry improved the investigative skills studied.