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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2020): July

TEACHING INFERENTIAL STATISTIC WITH AN MOVIL APLICATION

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12802/relime.20.2324
Submitted
November 7, 2022
Published
2020-07-17

Abstract

The teaching of Statistics in university courses has presented greater challenges in the disciplines of Social Sciences. In this research, an application for smartphone devices was designed with the aim of supporting the learning of Inferential Statistics in a sample of Psychology and Social Work students at a Chilean university. Application features include trivia, a glossary, a coaching mode for deciding which hypothesis test to apply, and a tutorial guide for running statistical procedures in SPSS. The results reveal that the students legitimize the use of the mobile application as study material, confirming high marks, both in the global evaluation of the application and in the evaluation of each function.

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