La enseñanza de la estadística inferencial. Un estudio de caso en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali

This article is the result of descriptive research which seeks to characterize the pedago-gical practice of the professors in inferential statistics of the Business Administration,Psychology and Industrial Engineering majors of the Pontificia Universidad Javerianain Cali.The information sources were constructed by the professors of the courses and theirrespective students. For the recovery of data, semi-structured interviews, student ques-tionnaires, class observation and institutional documents were used. Data correspondingto each professor was condensed in a general double entry template, consisting of peda-gogical categories, indicators of most interest for study, and information sources. Basedon this template, a matrix was designed with the following educational categories: plan-ning, execution and evaluation, which corresponded to the rows, and the pedagogicalfactors: objectives, contents, pedagogical strategies and evaluation of learning, to thecolumns. This matrix facilitated the analysis and conceptualization of the pedagogicalpractice of each professor. From the discussion and analysis of the results it was foundthat the pedagogical practice of the three professors is influenced by institutional poli-cies and the style of the professor. Each practice, in turn, possesses clear elements whichare characteristic of models which are traditional, transmissionist, and behaviourist, andto a lesser extent self-structuring. It is therefore recognized that the professors are notimmersed in only one pedagogical model, but that their practice contains characteristicsof different models.