Integration of applied statistics proje...

We address problems that arise in teaching statistics in non-statistical degree courses in statistics. The typical student reveals basic difficulties in the understanding of the key concepts. This project is aimed to design teaching units and to investigate experiences with the “project method”, motivating students with real data from the future profession. The project method should generate collaborative learning and social interaction between groups by embedding learning statistics in the context of applied problems in the form of projects. Godino’s semiotic ontological framework provides elements for the investigation of the instructional process and for the design of didactic trajectories in the first exploratory phase of execution, as well as exposing the linguistic, situational, actuative, conceptual, propositional, and argumentative elements that are relevant in understanding a particular topic. 

The analyses of our experimental classes show a relative success, so that we – backed up by our theoretical analysis – propose the project method for teaching statistics, especially for hybrid courses where face-to-face is combined with virtual parts of knowledge acquisition.