Student voice and choice for building project-based learning

Abstract

This article aims to present one of the stages of a training itinerary in order to answer the following question: What is the students' previous knowledge about GPS and how their protagonism can guide the development of a PBL? The research was carried out in a public school in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in High School, in the course Formative Itinerary. Through the "Student's Voice and Choice" step, we seek to identify the students' prior knowledge using the SQP model as a data collection method, which, through three questions, helps to understand where students are in relation to specific content. The Framework consists of placing a series of questions about a particular topic, since when identifying or what students already know about a theme, the PBL group will already be in the knowledge activity that was acquired. For the analysis of the results, we used the Iramuteq software, in order to construct a graph of the maximum similarity tree. The graphs generated from the questions were able to guide which procedures will be taken from that point on, in addition to making clear the students' expectations regarding what will be developed as well as previous knowledge about the proposed theme.