Educação a distância: uma análise do processo de ensinoaprendizagem em disciplina de probabilidade e estatística

Abstract

The Statistics contents in the Elementary School II and High School – Ensino Fundamental II e Médio – are covered by Mathematics teachers and, therefore, it is necessary to analyze whether and how the teaching of Statistics in the graduation Mathematics courses addresses statistical principles. In this work, a research about the teaching of Statistics in the graduation distance learning of Mathematics offered by the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and by the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), through the Centro de Educação Superior a Distância do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, the Consortium CEDERJ, wascarried out. Thus, this work had the objective to analyze the teaching of Probability and Statistics in the college education with the peculiar distinction of being a distance learning course. The stages of literacy proposed by Watson (1997), the levels of statistical reasoning proposed by Garfield (2002) and the dimensions of the statistical thought developed by Wild and Pfannkuch (1999) were considered as theoretical inputs. A survey was conducted in the Probability and Statistics subject, which is part of the third semester of the course mentioned above. The question that guided this study was: how is the teaching-learning process in the Probability and Statistics subject of the students of the Distance Learning Mathematics Course at UFF / UNIRIO? The analysis of the performance of the students of 2019/1 was performed in a qualitative way, seeking to verify which and how were addressed the statistical competences in the proposed questions, both in the Distance Assessments and in the Onsite Assessments. And qualitatively, by exploring the grades available in the academic system (system where grades are available. The printed didactic material and the Programmed Exercises were also analyzed (exercises that are proposed weekly so that the student has more materials available). This analysis was based on the authors already mentioned. Finally, an analysis was made in the Probability and Statistics subject room, aiming to verify what and what kind of interactions happened, as well as to verify if tools such as chat, applets, forums were available. The obtained results guided the construction of the educational product that was the result of this dissertation. This is a script of activities using graphical analysis to build statistical skills. It was noticed that in the teaching-learning process in the Probability and Statistics subject offered by UFF / UNIRIO there is a very clear search for the construction of statistical literacy and statistical reasoning. This appears in printed learning materials and in Programmed Exercises.