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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2019): March

Pathways for teaching statistics for the area of health

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12802/relime.2019.24
Submitted
November 5, 2022
Published
2019-03-23

Abstract

Statistical support for the health area has grown a lot in the last 50 years and continues to advance, mainly after the popularization of computers and specific software. Terms such as evidence-based practice and epidemiology have statistics as one of their pillars and are common in the health area. Given its importance, many efforts to improve the teaching and learning of Statistics have been disseminated in the academic environment. This work shows and analyzes the paths that the teaching of Statistics took, considering the literature review made by Garfield (1995), taken up by Garfield and Ben-Zvi (2007) and focusing on the specific case of the health area through the own review of the literature, which included articles published from 2007 to 2017 in journals in the area of ​​health and education. The own literature review analyzed 26 articles that were classified into two categories: psychological aspects and teaching methodologies. The teaching of statistics evolved as an area of ​​study and research, specific and particular efforts began to have specific institutional instructions and guidelines for the teaching of statistics. However, there is a lack of instruments for evaluating what students learn and the use of learning theories is negligible, which has an impact on methodologies that are still largely based solely on the practice of teachers.

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