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Aprendiendo de forma cooperativa a través del método científico

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[EN] Usually, students tend to divide tasks unequally when they have to work in groups, everyone prepares a part of the manuscript and later they bind all parts together and deliver it. In this way, learning is fragmented and the desired goal is not achieved: to work cooperatively. In our experience we proposed students to work as a group of scientists. From a brief background they had to write an introduction, design a protocol using the indicated experimental technique and finally they had to speculate and discuss on the expected results. The activity should have raised the cooperation among all group members, because the correct understanding of a section required of the understanding of the preceding sections. The results showed that our students have problems working as a team, because only students with high motivation for the subject showed an improvement in learning by this method. This is probably due to an education system that qualifies students based on their individual effort. However, the activity encouraged many positive aspects such as doubts clarification, discussion of ideas among them, the correct search for information and also offered quality manuscripts.