KNOWLEDGE AND DIFFICULTIES EXPRESSED BY CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN A DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF STATISTICS

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Manoel dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Moura, Anna Regina Lanner de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Reamec
• Texto Completo: https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/reamec/article/view/9349
• topic: Knowledge; Difficulties; Diagnostic Evaluation; Statistics; Conhecimentos. Dificuldades. Avaliação Diagnóstica. Estatística.

The research in the present paper aimed to analyze knowledge and difficulties that Civil Engineering students expressed regarding basic contents of Statistics in a diagnostic evaluation. The research was conducted with 30 (thirty) students of 5th year at a private university in the city of São Luís/MA. It is a qualitative research of interpretative nature. Results show that the students had difficulties to analyze an interpret tables and graphics, as well as to calculate the measures of central tendency, mainly the median one. Despite most of them made the calculations of arithmetic average and mode correctly, there were still a great number of mistakes. The diagnostic test revealed that the students’ difficulties are related to conceptual lack of knowledge, particularly of mode and median, since they do not know when to apply one or other. Therefore, those test results may be the sustaining of a coherent planning to the students’ conceptual needs, which may contribute to more effective learning of those statistical concepts