Una estrategia para mejorar los niveles de retención de los estudiantes de física de primer año

Abstract

We present a strategy designed to improve the levels of permanence of the first year Physics students. The pro-posal is based on an experience carried out during the first semester of 2017, which allowed to significantly im-proving the permanence level of students in the Physics and Chemistry Teachers Program of the NationalUniversity of Rio Negro who attended the first year physics course. Among the measures taken, a professor who had taught the admission course, and therefore knew several of the students, was incorporated into the chair; all members of the chair worked in all classes in a personalized way with each student. Collaborative work was en-couraged among them, enhancing each other's abilities and respecting personal learning times. We believe that the good retention results obtained are not independent of the novel character of the contents developed, which cover many aspects of present day physics which run “from the galaxies to the quarks”.