Heurísticas y sesgos de los estudiantes de primer ciclo de universidad en la resolución de problemas de probabilidad

Abstract

Along with the high interest created by the addition of Statistics and Probability into curricular projects arises the evidence of important obstacles in the meaningful learning of the different related concepts. These obstacles and the various alternative concepts are the subject for many studies, which mostly consider secondary students. Therefore, there is a lack of such research works for University undergraduate students. This work aims at finding what University undergraduate students understand by random phenomena, when the concept is part of an introductory probability theory. Secondly, it aims at grouping the students’ alternative conceptions in self-explanatory categories, which hopefully will be of use for the understanding of the students’ learning progress.