Abstract

GARCIA SANCHEZ, Silberio et al. Pedagogical strategy to develop favorable attitudes in the teaching of statistics in students of the degree in Environmental Sciences. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.22, e012.  Epub May 21, 2021. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v11i22.835.

Negative attitudes towards the learning of statistics by undergraduate students influence the performance in their learning. Studying these attitudes towards learning statistics is of great importance so as to understand the phenomenon. In this sense, the objective of the research was to analyze the attitudes towards learning and the elementary knowledge of the statistics of students of the Degree in Environmental Sciences, based on the results, a pertinent pedagogical strategy was selected and used, the same which guided the process of learning in the Statistics Learning Unit. The method used was of a mixed type, the quantitative Likert-type survey was applied and in the qualitative part an instrument of open questions was used, in addition, an intervention proposal was made, for the development of positive attitudes of the students towards the statistics. The analysis of the quantitative information was done with the statistical package SPSS 21.0. and Excel, developing only descriptive analysis, for open questions, it was based on the method of coding, classification. Intentionally and for convenience a non-probabilistic sampling was carried out to students of the Higher School of Environmental Sciences of the Autonomous University of Guerrero.

The results show that the students who took the statistics course with the pedagogical strategy implemented learn more in class, promoting autonomous learning and recognized the strategy as the tool that can be articulated in the development of any learning unit. They also showed motivation for the development of positive attitudes towards learning statistics. On the other hand, they contribute to promote reflective thinking of attitudes towards statistics, having greater emphasis on the construction of knowledge that allows them to intervene and solve problems through this Project-Based Learning pedagogical strategy which was proposed. As a conclusion we can say, that the perception of the students working with this type of pedagogical strategy is really good, however; fatigue, laziness, etc in the classroom.), are some factors that must be taken into account, this would allow to have a better execution of the proposed pedagogical strategy.

Keywords : student attitude; statistics; learning method.

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