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Difficulties in learning astronomy in High School

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Recebido em 10/5/2012; Aceito em 3/9/2012; Publicado em 1/3/2013El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer las dificultades de aprendizaje de la astronom´ia del alumnado al finalizarla educaci´on secundaria de nuestro pa´is (16 anos)˜ y si la ensenanza˜ las tiene en cuenta. Para ello se ha realizadoun cuestionario a estudiantes y una red de an´alisis de textos, en los que se investigan cuestiones relativas a laastronom´ia de posici´on, la astrof´isica y la cosmolog´ia. Se han aplicado a 113 alumnos que ya hab´ian estudiado eltema y a 14 manuales, respectivamente. Los resultados muestran que el alumnado sigue sin comprender aspectosb´asicos de la astronom´ia, pese a la reiteraci´on en la ensenanza˜ del tema.Palabras-clave: ensenanza-aprendiza˜ je, astronom´ia y astrof´isica, did´actica de la astronom´ia.The aim of this study was to determine the students’ difficulties in astronomy learning at the end of secon-dary education in our country (16 years) and whether the teaching takes them into account. For that reasonit has been made a questionnaire to students and a network text analysis, which investigates issues of positionastronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. These questionnaires have been applied to 113 students who had studiedthe issue and to 14 manuals, respectively. The results show that students still do not understand the basics ofastronomy, despite the repetition in teaching the subject.Keywords: teaching and learning, astronomy & astrophysics, teaching of physics.