Education Statistics with citizen training in quanti-action research in Higher Education

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Maria Tereza Serrano
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Ross, Steven Dutt, Simões, Bruno Francisco, Velasque, Luciane de Souza, Silva, Alexandre Sousa da, Assunção, Maria Beatriz Mendes, Tuttman, Malvina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática - REnCiMa
• Texto Completo: https://revistapos.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/rencima/article/view/1463
• topic: Educação Estatística; Pesquisa-Ação; Lei de Cotas; Formação Superior; Statistical Education; action-research; quota law; higher education

This article aims to contribute to the reflections on the role of Statistical Education in Higher Education, based on the proposition of a methodology used in various disciplines of Statistics in a Public University. The described methodology includes the collection and analysis of data in the investigative cycles of an Action Research, here called Quantitative Research. The results obtained refer to two editions, with an interval of two years, of a research carried out by the students of the Statistics disciplines. In both editions, the research aimed to measure the impact of the Law of Quotas, which provided discussion about the role that this area of knowledge, transverse to almost all courses, may have in citizen education. The manipulation of data, based on a theme of its reality, favored the motivation and learning, even informal, of concepts of inference and statistical modeling, as well as provoked instigating discussions and questions about the social reality described by the data. This proposal points to a promising methodological way to expand the potential of the Statistics disciplines, taught in almost all undergraduate courses, favoring the formation of more critical and conscious citizens.