Abstract

The effectiveness of using the Uve diagram of Gowin in the Physics laboratory is studied to analyze the effectiveness of the methodology of inquiry with the purpose of developing scientific competence, scientific reasoning and academic performance in CivilEngineering students at the University of Bio Bio. The design is quasi-experimental of two groups with pre and post-test. The results show improvement of the performance in the experimental group, the reasoning does not show statistically significant changes.Implications of the methodological change in the level of scientific competence performance are discussed.