Competence for the learning of statistics in students of Higher Education (Review)

Abstract

For years, theories of learning have become a fundamental piece to improve teaching in the classroom, providing the teacher with valid and novel techniques and strategies for learning, where the student in the process of teaching and learning in the subject of mathematics and statistics, is introduced to concepts and symbols, which are not constructed by him, and which requires the interaction of facilitators. Statistical competence contributes to a research methodology, constancy in the exploration of more precise results, the need to substantiate affirmations, critical reasoning based on objective evidence and a great power of synthesis and abstraction, which favors the development of other research competence. The context in which humanity develops today projects the need to deploy a new educational model that reflects on cognitive behavioral processes such as socio-affective behaviors, cognitive skills and social affective, psychological, sensory and motor, that allow to carry out, properly, a role, a function, an activity or a task. 40 residents participated in this research through a survey. Non-probabilistic sampling was applied. It is a descriptive research which is carried out in a quantitative and qualitative framework, because through this either the different positive and negative or internal and external qualities in which the daily activities are developed, are determined, because it exposes the how and why of the cases. The results demonstrate a progressive advance of new mechanisms of statistical research at present in the society and the technological world.