UNDERSTANDING ENEM: STUDY ON THE COMPOSITION OF ISSUES IN THE AREA OF NATURE SCIENCES AND ITS TECHNOLOGIES
Contextualization. Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. Competence. Skills.
The fundamental principle of education is “to promote full development for citizenship and the labor market”. For this, there was the curricular change of basic education, which established the teaching that prioritizes competence, skill, contextualization and interdisciplinarity, in order to improve the educational practice. In this sense, the general objective was to analyze the cognitive competences that involve the issues of Nature Sciences and their Technologies in National High School Exam (Enem). The methodology is qualitative-quantitative, documentary based on the interpretative analysis of content of the reference matrix of the examination and the questions applied between 2013 and 2017, using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT) and categorization in exercises, scientific, daily application and technological application, according to the guidelines of the PCNEM and the interaction between the disciplines of the area, designated as multidisciplinary. From the analysis of the matrix based on the RBT, there was a prevalence of the cognitive process to understand, while the dimension of knowledge, the procedural and conceptual emerged. Regarding the skills, predominance of the cognitive process understanding and conceptual knowledge, which were evidenced by H1, H8 and H24 (Physics, Environment and Chemistry). Concerning the objects of knowledge of this area, there were contents that repeated in all editions while others were not present in any, a fact that influences the school curriculum. Of the 225 Questions of Enem analyzed regarding RBT, the category understand prevailed over the others with an average of 49,4%, followed by the recall with 28.4% and applying it with 22,2%, the other categories analyze, evaluate and create were not found in the questions. On the dimension of knowledge, the effective/factual manifested itself in 45,34%, followed by the conceptual with 24,68% and the procedural with 19,98%. No question was found that fit the dimension into metacognition. As far as the categorization of contextuality, 53% of the questions present characteristics of learning didactic exercises, 21% characterize daily applications, 19% scientific applications and 7% presented technological applications. When analyzing the integration of disciplines in Enem’s evidence issues, 83,2% are disciplinary. Only 16.8% of the questions present themselves with multidisciplinary characteristic and applications to daily life. The results obtained indicate that Enem, for the area of nature sciences and its technologies, privileges the memorization of contents, remaining at a low cognitive level and that, despite the division by area of knowledge, the disciplinary posture stands out in the tests, within the analyzed period.