Scientific competence is necessary to ensure socio-economic progress and employability of citizens, as well as for personal fulfillment, social inclusion and active participation of citizens. However, the socio-economic consequences of this situation have not been unnoticed at European level, from where different actions are being taken to improve this situation for our children and young people. Undoubtedly, one of the main actions to be carried out is the educational field, promoting methods of instruction that facilitate the development of scientific competencies and create a favorable attitude towards science. The inverted instruction methodology also known as “flipped classroom” is a learning method in which the traditional classroom setting is inverted. With this methodology, lectures are provided outside of the classroom, and therefore the in-class time are used to complete students-centered learning activities such as solving problems/case studies, discussions and collaborative activities. This relatively new instructional methodology assumes that flipping the classes promotes a more effective learning since it manages to involve students more effectively in the teaching-learning process in cognitive and affective dimension, thus achieving better results. The results obtained in this study, therefore, allow drawing a promising tendency about the students’ cognitive and affective dimension toward the flipped classroom methodology and will contribute to fully frame this relatively new instruction methodology

Dr. Jin Su Jeong is a researcher fellow at the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) and the Technical University of Madrid (Spain) with the Juan de la Cierva programs. He was received his MS in Architecture from the Texas A&M University, College Station (United States) in 2006 and his PhD with International Mention and Suma Cum Laude in Science and Mathematics Education (2018) and Graphic Engineering, Geomatics and Projects (2014) from the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain). For his doctoral dissertation, he has done different doctoral research stays and collaborations. He has published more than 80 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, including 25 papers in journals indexed in the Web of Science. He has participated in the scientific committee of many international conferences and associations and has served as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals. He has been involved in a number of international, European and national grants as well as industrial collaborations.