Uma análise da construção do letramento estatístico nas provas do Exame Nacional de Acesso ao Mestrado Profissional de Matemática em Rede Nacional (PROFMAT)

Abstract

The objective of the research is to investigate and discuss how the contents of Statistics have been approached within the perspective of the construction of statistical literacy in the tests of the National Examination of Access (ENA) to the professional Master in Mathematics in National Network (PROFMAT). For this, a research of documentary character, in which an analysis was made off all editions of the PROFMAT-ENA test. The questions involving the content of statistics were analyzed and classified according to the levels of statistical literacy (WATSON and CALLINGHAM, 2003), and, where applicable, they were analyzed and classified according to the levels of reading and understanding of tables and graphs (WAINER, 1995; CURCIO, 1989) levels of table comprehension (WAINER, 1995) for questions involving tables and levels of graphical understanding (CURCIO, 1989) for questions involving statistical graphs. The main results point to the predominance of questions that demand consistent non-critical (50.00%) and informal (30.00%) levels for statistical literacy, from the level reading between data (100.00%) for graphic comprehension and intermediate level (50.00%) and advanced level (50.00%) for reading and understanding table. Some aspects associated with the construction of the statistical reasoning and thinking present in the tests will be discussed and some questions of the tests will be analyzed according to the characteristics of statistical literacy that they originate.