Abstract:

Training in statistics in higher education requires enormous motivation from teachers towards students. In the subject of Statistics in the Aerospace Engineering Degree at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, we have been developing training methods based on active teaching for years, to motivate students. Learning based on projects, problems, and challenges is worked on.

A work methodology for students that we established during the CoVID pandemic was bubble learning. This learning represents an evolution of what is traditionally known as teamwork, and it has proven to be highly successful, giving us very good results.

In this article, we review the methodology developed for training in bubbles, and we show an experience in which two motivating elements come together: work in bubbles and competition.

Students face statistical exercises that they have to solve in a limited time, and depending on the position in which they finish, they are rewarded with a grade. The problems that students address are: the need to know the statistical base, the procedures necessary to apply the techniques and critical thinking to discern which statistical tools are applicable in the exercises.

Finally, we also show the results of the evaluation and the students' impressions when carrying out the activity.

Keywords:

Statistics, competition, bubble learning, aerospace.