Evaluation of the understanding on statistical tables in students of Elementary Education

Abstract

This work focuses on the organization and structure of the results on the response observed about statistical tables in students from a municipal elementary school from the Osorno province, in Chile. Tests with four open questions were applied to a sample of 233 students from third and sixth grades. The answers were classified according to a continuum ranging from incompetence to mastery: the ability, operations involved, consistence and conclusions. The results show that the students answers were largely grouped in a superficial learning approach, this means that, although they deliver relevant data, it does so in an isolated way, they organize the data but there is a failure in the connection between them. It was observed that there is no significant differences between the answers structure and organization from third grade or sixth grade students.