Abstract

SANCHEZ NUMA, Aníbal; NUMA RODRIGUEZ, Mirtha de la Caridad  and  RODRIGUEZ MOYA, Oscar Silvio. Didactic Strategy for the contextualization of the statistical content in the Tourism and Civil Engineering careers. Rev. Mendive [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.3, pp.346-356.  Epub Sep 02, 2019. ISSN 1815-7696.

The Statistical discipline is included in the curriculum of several careers, among which Tourism and Civil Engineering are, among others. Achieving that the students prepare themselves in the application of this subject in manifest situations in the profile of each career is the purpose of its study, for which it is necessary to contextualize its content to the profession. The objective of this paper is to present a didactic strategy for the contextualization of statistical content in in Tourism and Civil Engineering careers. The conception of this strategy is supported theoretically in the epistemological analysis about how to conceive the statistical training in the university majors so that it contributes to the preparation to solve exercises of different levels of difficulty, contextualized to the profession, as well as in a study of the contexts that contribute professional situations related to the solution of statistical exercises in the in Tourism and Civil Engineering careers. The result is the elaboration of a didactic strategy oriented to the contextualization of the content of Statistics to the profile of the careers in which it is studied and some examples of exercises contextualized to the aforementioned careers. As conclusions of the work, it is obtained that the application of the Didactic Strategy proposed contributes to increase the cognitive independence of the students in the solution of contextualized exercises to the profession.

Keywords : university careers; didactic strategy; contextualization of statistical content.

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