Abstract:

Our teaching experience in Statistical Inference courses within the field of Social Sciences has revealed that students of this area have learning and software management difficulties. Problem-Based Learning methodology is one of the strategies used to facilitate the acquisition of specific statistical inference skills by students, as well as to promote their active participation in class and, consequently, their academic results. On the other hand, the number of foreign students who benefit from mobility grants to study at the University of Jaén has increased significantly over the last few years. Besides, due to the interdisciplinary nature of Statistics, courses related to this subject are usually included in the academic agreement of students from different degrees and universities. Taking into account the above considerations, a teaching innovation initiative was developed based on the design and implementation of a model of bilingual practices used to address the contents of Statistical Inference. In this paper we present the results of a survey carried out among the students of the Social Sciences field at the University of Jaén about this initiative.

Keywords:

Problem-learning, Statistical Inference.