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11.1 – Room 2905
Instructional Design and Peer Instruction in the Teaching of Statistics (pr-1)
Jorge Flores Herrera ( Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral): rflores@espol.edu.ec
The purpose of this study was to promote statistical literacy and statistical reasoning and to develop autonomous learning. The research methodology applied was the design-based research. The intervention was in the unit of Frequency Distributions. In stage one, the researcher decided to design eight self-instructional modules to promote the statistical literacy and to develop autonomous learning; followed by the peer instruction to achieve the statistical reasoning. In phase two, twenty students of a postgraduate course on Statistics participated in this research. A pretest was administered for each module, then students learn by themselves each instructional module and finally a posttest was administered for each module. Afterwards, the peer instruction was presented for each module. This study in the second phase proved that the combination of the self-instructional modules and the peer instruction promotes statistical literacy and statistical reasoning and supports self-learning.