Evolución del perfil socioacadémico de la física en estudiantes venezolanos

Abstract

This work presents a comparative and descriptive analisys of the socio-academic profile shown by students of physics in Venezuela, and the relationship between this profile and variables as: educational level, gender, academic performance in physics, and general attitude towards science. Our results, from a 825 High School sample, reveals a decrease in the socio-academic profile of subject and attitude along the school year. However, no decrease was found between a given school level and the next. The subject profile obtained from male student scores was always higher than the corresponding one obtained from female student scores. Their evolutions were similar, with an increase in the gap between the two as the educational level increased.