Abstract

This research seeks to establish the influence of an active methodological approach through Problem Based Learning (PBL) in learning strategies, motivation and academic performance. This approach used to deal with the contents of probability and statistics. Its main objective is to evaluate their effects on the meaningful learning of the students in the fourth year of a high school in Coronel, Chile. The use of PBL is designed to work in collaborative groups to aquire meaningful learning from activities to be solved. The results show significant statistically changes in some of the categories analyzed as sign of meaningful learning and a positive evaluation. The research is carried out by means of a quasi-experimental design where two groups are compared in academic performance, motivation and learning strategies.