Difficulties in learning and understanding statistics in college education have led to a reform movement in statistics education in the early 1990s. Although much work has been done, there is more work that needs to be done in statistics education. The progress depends on how well the educators bring interesting real-life data into the classroom. The goal was to understand how course design based on First Principles of Instruction could facilitate tertiary-level students' conceptual understanding when learning introductory statistics in a technology-enhanced learning environment. An embedded single descriptive case design was employed to investigate how integrating technology and real data into a tertiary level statistics course would affect students' statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking. Data including online assignment postings, online discussions, online peer evaluations, a comprehensive assessment, and open-ended interviews were analyzed to understand how the implementation of First Principles of Instruction affected a student's conceptual understanding in a tertiary level introductory statistics course. In addition, the teaching and learning quality (TALQ) survey was administered to evaluate the teaching and learning quality of the designed instruction from the student's perspective. Results from both quantitative and qualitative data analyses indicate that the course designed following Merrill's First Principles of Instruction contributes to a positive overall effectiveness of promoting students' conceptual understanding in terms of literacy, reasoning, and thinking statistically. However, students' statistical literacy, specifically, the understanding of statistical terminology did not develop to a satisfactory level as expected.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:44:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Avelino Giffoni Junior.pdf: 1830384 bytes, checksum: 21eb9354ffab237bbbb50167f6ea3401 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-28 / The research deals with the problem of social inequality and educational inequality, specifically addressing the complex issue of pursuing quality in teaching and learning, in the sense of human development with autonomy and real emancipation aiming a better life, in formal education for pre-schoolchildren within social poverty situation (in IBGE-BRAZIL classification). The work shows the results from the investigation of processes of teachinglearning in the school for younger children maintained by Douglas Andreani Association, in the Monte Cristo-Oziel-Gleba B Community in Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil). Those educational processes joints school content (concepts, skills, values and affections), sociocultural and institutional motives and practices. The research takes place during the year 2012 in the settings with children (4-5 years), teachers, pedagogic coordinators, managers, and other employees of the institution, within the Community. This area of poor people is a favela in the classification of IBGE, with more than 35,000 inhabitants. This qualitative research is a case study in the form of a pedagogic-didactic intervention (interactivedialectic) based on the cultural-historical approach developed by Lev S. Vygotsky, Alexander R. Luria and Alexei N. Leontiev (activity theory) and contributors. Mariane Hedegaard and Seth Chaiklin have expanded this approach with the so-called radical-local teaching and learning theory from the basis of the human developmental teaching built by Vasily V. Davydov. The data analysis included the study of the social situation, learning and development of young schoolchildren through the research of the wholeness social situation proposed by Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer. The experiences of daily life of the participants within the research provide the interpretations and analysis. The study has shown the relevance of the participant knowledge from their experiences in their social situations, in the teaching and learning actions, in articulation with the school knowledge, for the students to form daily and scientific (school) concepts. Thus, the personal and social subjectivities are constituents of the construction of new psychological formations by the students as a condition for human development and of personality (F. González Rey), in the inseparable unit of the emotional, affective, cognitive, aesthetic and moral aspects of psiche. The research also indicated didactic-pedagogic pathways in the area of teacher education, educational planning and qualitative research procedures, especially when developed in specific settings of the school and the classroom. This work aims to contribute to the teaching and learning research debate within the problem area of the public/private and the so-called third sector in contemporary Brazilian Education. It also intends to contribute to the field of social pedagogy tangentially developed with school pedagogy. / A pesquisa vincula-se à problemática das relações entre desigualdade social e desigualdade educativa abordando, especificamente, a complexa questão da busca de qualidade no ensinoaprendizagem, no sentido do desenvolvimento humano com autonomia e real emancipação visando a melhoria da vida, em instituições escolares da Educação Infantil para crianças em idade pré-escolar na condição social de pobreza (classificação do IBGE-BRASIL). São apresentados resultados de investigação de processos de ensino-aprendizagem na Escola Infantil mantida pela Associação Douglas Andreani, na Comunidade Monte Cristo-Parque Oziel-Gleba B, em Campinas (Estado de São Paulo, Brasil), onde se articulam conteúdos escolares (conceitos, habilidades, valores, afetos), motivos e práticas socioculturais e institucionais. Esta pesquisa foi conduzida durante o ano de 2012 tendo como cenários a escola, as crianças (4-5 anos), professoras, coordenadoras pedagógicas, gestores, demais trabalhadores da Instituição e pessoas nessa comunidade em situação social de pobreza, considerada pelos critérios do IBGE como favela. A investigação qualitativa é um estudo de caso e consistiu de ações de intervenção pedagógico-didática (dialético-interativa), dentro da abordagem histórico-cultural elaborada por Lev S. Vigotski, A. Luria, A. Leontiev (teoria da atividade) e V. Davydov (teoria do ensino para o desenvolvimento), ampliada pela teoria do ensino-aprendizagem radical-local proposta por Mariane Hedegaard e Seth Chaiklin. A análise dos dados incluiu o estudo da situação social, da aprendizagem e do desenvolvimento de crianças mediante pesquisa da totalidade da situação social proposta por Mariane Hedegaard e Marilyn Fleer, a partir do que foram realizadas análises e interpretações das vivências dos participantes. O estudo mostrou a relevância em ações de ensinoaprendizagem, do conhecimento que os participantes da pesquisa trazem do seu cotidiano, articulado ao conhecimento escolar, para a formação de conceitos cotidianos e científicos (escolares). Desse modo, as subjetividades pessoal e social são abordadas como constituintes da construção de novas formações psicológicas pelos alunos, como condição para o desenvolvimento humano e da personalidade (F. González Rey), na unidade inseparável dos aspectos: emocional, afetivo, cognitivo, estético e moral da psique. A pesquisa também indicou caminhos didático-pedagógicos para os estudos na área de formação de professores, planejamento didático e procedimentos de pesquisa qualitativa, principalmente quando desenvolvidos nos cenários concretos da escola e da sala de aula. Pretendeu, ainda, contribuir para o debate na área problema público/privado e do chamado terceiro setor, na Educação Brasileira contemporânea, e também para o campo da Pedagogia Social, que vem se desenvolvendo tangencialmente à Pedagogia Escolar.