Simuladores on-line de circuitos elétricos: potencial para o ensino de eletricidade

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the scientific production in the area of Physics Teaching on online simulators on the subject of electricity published in national and international articles between 2005 and 2021. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was carried out, using the search tool StArt (State of the Art through Systematic Review) to develop the entire systematic literary search in the ACM, SciELO and Google Scholar database. It was used as search strings: electrical circuits, simulators, electricity and physics teaching. The sample constitutes a total of fifty-five selected works. The analyzed publications describe the use of electrical circuit simulators being used for teaching electricity to basic education students, expressing the students' performance, the teachers' performance and the positive contribution to the teachinglearning of the analyzed groups. In the works carried out, analyzes were made of the students' prior knowledge about the content taught, preceding the presentation of the simulators, and the understanding, after using the simulator, of the concepts and laws of Nature. The periodicals analyzed are included in Qualis Periódicos, thus certifying its quality. It was evident, in all the selected works, that after using the simulators, the most relevant being PhET (Physics Education Technology) from the University of Colorado and Every Circuit, the students were able to apply and better understand the laws and principles of electricity that are often subjects, thus confirming the positive contribution of these tools for the teacher's didactic improvement and student's study.