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STUDENT : DIÊGO BEZERRA DE MELO MACIEL
DATE: 15/02/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Webconferência (Google Meet)
TITLE:

TYPOLOGY OF THE STATISTICAL LITERACY CONDITIONS OF BRAZILIAN ECONOMICS STUDENTS: WHAT DOES ENADE REVEAL?

KEY WORDS:

Statistical Education; University education; Grade of Membership

PAGES: 132
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Multidisciplinar
SUMMARY:

This research aimed to propose a Typology for Statistical Literacy Conditions of Brazilian Economics students. Therefore, we sought to: i) identify whether the perspective of Statistical Literacy (SL) was present in the questions involving Statistics in Enade/2018 (National Exam of Student Performance); ii) analyse student performance on these issues; and iii) present explanations of this performance through a set of factors associated with the student's sociodemographic characteristics, their academic situation and the level of perception about the existence of SL practices in the teaching environment and about Enade itself. The analysis showed that Statistics questions demanded SL skills, valuing a critical attitude towards information, overcoming personal beliefs to interpret data and dispensing with the use of formulas and complex mathematical calculations. In addition, the context of the questions brought, in most cases, real socioeconomic research situations. However, the average percentage of student’s correct answers was low (49.13% in Descriptive Analysis; 39.94% in Probability and 33.03% in Statistical Inference). The Typology of SL Conditions - obtained using the Grade of Membership method - enabled the identification of patterns that characterize these SL Conditions (Extreme Profiles), as well as estimates of the degrees of pertinence of each student to such standards. The Typology revealed a complex overlapping system between the established SL levels and the various characteristics investigated, with clearly hierarchical aspects in relation, mainly, to the statistical domain of the undergraduates. Three extreme profiles of SL Conditions were identified: SL Averse Conditions; Intermediate Conditions for the SL; and conditions conducive to literacy. The Reverse Conditions group (6%) was more associated with lower levels of performance, more advanced age groups, higher level of family fragility and higher percentages of those enrolled in private distance learning courses. Most of these students felt unmotivated at the time of Enade and revealed the highest levels of disagreement about SL practices during their training. In the opposite situation, students in the Propitious Conditions (35.10%) had higher percentages of correct answers, aggregating, with greater emphasis, younger individuals, with better family situations and coming from private colleges. These realized SL practices during their learning process. Most students (55.70%) were in the Intermediate Conditions. This group was more likely to exhibit an intermediate performance in the Enade, come from public universities, present higher levels of extracurricular development and reasonably perceive the presence of SL practices in the classroom. The way of approaching the content drew attention as one of the main causes of difficulties pointed out by students in relation to Enade questions. Because of this, it was inferred that most of the undergraduates seem to have experienced a learning process that differed from the skills set by the SL and guided by the DNC of the courses. The strong association between higher SL levels and higher degrees of full perception of SL practices made student perception a relevant and innovative factor to explain the statistical performance of Economics undergraduates in Enade/2018. This possibly makes the Typology of SL Conditions an important theoretical-methodological instrument for analysing the development of SL in higher education.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - CELSO RIBEIRO CAMPOS - PUC - SP
Externo à Instituição - CEZAR AUGUSTO CERQUEIRA - UPE
Presidente - 1121255 - GILDA LISBOA GUIMARAES
Externa à Instituição - MARÍA DEL MAR LÓPEZ MARTÍN
Interno - 1202339 - SERGIO PAULINO ABRANCHES