CONCEPTUAL ERRORS OF ASTRONOMY IN TEXTBOOKS OF THE 6th YEAR OF SCIENCES - PNLD 2020 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FINAL YEARS

Abstract

Analysis, comments and corrections of conceptual errors in Astronomy in twelve 6th Year of Sciences textbooks, approved in the PNLD 2020, Elementary School Final Years. The methodology used for data collection was the Qualitative Approach of Research in Education and the technique employed was Content Analysis. Five previous categories and thirty-six unforeseen categories were established for the concepts of Astronomy and quantitative indexes with a tolerance of 10.0% for concepts, pages, final index and grade, according to Notice No. 01/2018 of the PNLD 2020. Textbooks, in order to be approved in the PNLD notices, cannot present conceptual errors. The 6th Year of Science textbooks contained a total of eighty-five conceptual errors in Astronomy texts and illustrations. Eleven of the twelve books have them and were disapproved by this study. The book Geração Alpha Ciências from SM was approved because it does not present conceptual errors. The book Inovar Ciências da Natureza by Saraiva was approved in the criterion of the number of errors in Astronomy related to the number of pages on Astronomy. The other ten Science textbooks by the publishers FTD, do Brasil, SM, Ática, Saraiva and Moderna were rejected on all criteria.