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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2020)
Julio - Diciembre

ARTICULOS DE INVESTIGACION

Encontrar temas en escritura creativa sobre la preservación ambiental para mejorar las estrategias de enseñanza: un caso de estudio en una escuela de primaria de Colombia

https://doi.org/10.19053/1900771X.v20.n2.2020.13391

Published 2021-09-02

  • Camilo Arturo Suárez Ballesteros
    • ,
  • María Claudia Esperanza Bernal Camargo
    • ,
  • Nidia Yaneth Torres Merchán

Camilo Arturo Suárez Ballesteros
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias, Tunja

María Claudia Esperanza Bernal Camargo
I.E. San Jerónimo Emiliani

Nidia Yaneth Torres Merchán
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Sede Tunja

Abstract

In this research, essays on trees preservation of fourth grade students (elementary school from Colombia) were evaluated with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The objective was extracting the fundamental topics, to understand the students’ behavior and awareness towards the environment from the creative writing. The computational results suggest the student’s reflections on environment preservation are focused on five main topics in: Teach-Learn to care for the environment, Explore-discover the environment, Well-being of the environment, Concern for the environment, and Restoration and conservation of the environment. This text analysis by LDA can complement the manual analysis of teachers, avoiding the veracity bias and allowing the enhancement of teaching strategies.

Keywords

reflective writing, topic modeling, LDA model, primary school students, technology application

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