IMPACTO DOS FUNDAMENTOS MATEMÁTICOS NO DESEMPENHO ACADÊMICO EM CÁLCULO DIFERENCIAL E INTEGRAL: UM ESTUDO NO CURSO DE BACHARELADO EM AGRONOMIA NO IF GOIANO – CAMPUS CERES

Abstract

Knowledge related to basic education mathematics content is fundamental in many undergraduate courses, and its lack can harm the student's performance in these courses and even cause them to drop out. This study aims to analyze the contents influencing mathematics subjects in basic education on the academic performance of students enrolled in the Differential and Integral Calculus subject, included in the Bachelor's degree in Agronomy at IF Goiano, Ceres Campus, Goiás State (GO), Brazil. This research is an interventionist case study with bibliographical research as a support instrument, which allows the theoretical foundation construction, alternating the concepts that involve Professional and Technological Education (EPT, Brazilian acronym) and school performance. This research made it possible to collect information regarding the course in question by applying a questionnaire to students and teachers, whose data were analyzed. This research was split into three stages, namely, the Systematic Literature Review (SLR), the case study, and the educational product development. The PICo strategy was used to formulate the research question in the SLR, which guided the keyword identifying, thus allowing the search to be carried out on the Eric, Scopus, and Web of Science platforms, for a period of ten years (2013-2022), resulting in 472 initial texts. In the case study, the target audience was the first-year class of the Bachelor's degree in Agronomy at IF Goiano, Ceres Campus. It was important to know the students' situation regarding the appropriation of mathematical content in basic education under the perspective of students and teachers in the area of exact sciences in that course. After viii being prepared and validated, questionnaires with open and closed questions were applied to students and teachers by digital platforms. Later, a pilot course was developed and delivered via an online platform. The analysis of the data resulting from the research questionnaires at the end of the pilot course and the SLR information was carried out through data triangulation, resulting in the educational product preparation, which is an online course within the scope of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), open modality, offered in virtual environments, without tutoring. This course will enable students to improve their basic mathematics knowledge, aiming to collaborate with the academic performance of students on the Bachelor's degree in Agronomy at IF Goiano, Campus Ceres, and other institutions.