2017, Number 3
Historical trends of the statistical formation process in university studies of humanistic profile
Numa RMC, Sánchez NA, Manzano SIM, Diéguez BR, Rodríguez MO
Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
Background: Statistics as discipline that contributes to the performance of professionals with humanistic profile. Objective: To identify features in terms of behavior of the statistical formation process in university studies of humanistic profile that limit the development of statistical professional dynamics, related to the integration of statistical contents and to the ones of the profession, in solving the problems connected to the profile of humanistic university studies. Development: A historical and logical analysis of the statistical formation process in university studies of humanistic profile was carried out, it was divided into three steps, according to the following indicators: the relation of the statistical formation process with context and profession, the relationship between the labored and academic components, the labored and research components and the perspective of analysis of problems treated. The steps are: guidance towards the processing of social information, sustained in positivists paradigms and problem solving modeled and features on the establishment of a qualitative and quantitative perspective and the solution of integrated exercises of some subjects. Finally, the approaching between qualitative and quantitative paradigms with sedges in modeling professional problems up to statistical inquires. The year 1997 was delimitated as the temporal genesis due to the fact that from that date on, there started to produce changes in Cuban higher education that intervened in a growing orientation towards the relation between basic subject contents and profession. Conclusion: In the process of statistical formation in the university studies of humanistic profile it is focused a gradual transit form a traditional academic dynamics of statistical formation towards the establishment of academic, research and labored components with limitations in the solution of problems modeled by the students by means of an interpreted professionalized search.