El proceso de autovalidación de respuestas a preguntas capciosas de probabilidad en un ambiente virtual; estudio exploratorio con estudiantes de ingeniería

Abstract

This document is a doctoral thesis whose objective is to characterize aspects in the developmental of self-validation processes in the answers to probability questions. The exploratory type of research, with a mixed methodology that considers as qualitative and independent variables the combinations between two forms of questions, tricky versus transparent, with two types of metacognitive strategies, concept maps versus online text consultation. The fieldwork was carried out with two groups of engineering students who were studying probability and statistics in two Colombian public universities during 2019. The quantitative variables, defined on the frequencies of the factual learning trajectories in the tests in a virtual self-regulated learning environment, showed that the majority did not realize the probability fallacies that linked the problems and chose inappropriate responses. They found reasons to give up on them with a concept map, which rarely happened when the strategy was to consult a text on the web. The tricky question inciding in results on the phenomenon of cognitive biases by making him doubt and decrease his retrospective confidence in the initial answer, and the conceptual map that feeds his consciousness in the error and makes him give up his self-validation process to solve your problem.