Resumen

INZUNSA CAZARES, Santiago  y  JIMENEZ RAMIREZ, José Vidal. The characteristics of college students' statistical reasoning on hypothesis testing. Relime [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.2, pp.179-211. ISSN 2007-6819.  https://doi.org/10.12802/relime.13.1622.

This article shows the results from a research on college students' statistical inference learning process from the major in mathematics. It was specially focused on the students' statistical reasoning on the concepts and processes that involved hypothesis testing. The results were analyzed based on the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO). They showed that students are primarly in the prestructural and unistructural level, which means that they have isolated information about the different concepts involved in hypothesis testing and/or that they take into consideration some relevant aspect of the process without having full awareness of what they are doing. Moreover, it was noticed that there are misguided conceptions on the nature of hypothesis testing and the main concepts involved such as the level of significance, value p and the formulation of the hypothesis.

Palabras llave : Statistical reasoning; Statistical inference; Hypothesis testing; Misconceptions; College students.