The understanding of traffic applied physics in high school graduates perspective, students of first driver's license courses

This article presents the results of a master's research that sought to investigate whether graduated in high school establish relationships between the physics contents, studied during the school, with Physical phenomena observed in everyday traffic, showing if the teaching proposal guided by official documents of the Ministério da Educação, that suggest a teaching for life, is having positive results after their training in school. Those submitted were 202 graduated in high school, driving schools students from Passo Fundo/RS, who answered a multiple choice questionnaire with 10 questions, analyzed with statistical techniques. As result, it can be observed that students do not visualize a relationship between physics and traffic; the quality of secondary education and the life experiences could be relevant to influence the good performance of a small portion of the participants; factors related to the school, teaching model, structure; as well as teachers, relationships with students, didacticism, personal relationships and teaching methodology were highlighted points through the analysis, suggesting correlation with knowledge retention.

Keywords:
Physics Teaching; Contextualization; Traffic Education