Assessment of monitoring in the teacher’s function: A statistical study in engineering classes in a university of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Abstract

Monitoring is understood as a teaching modality that enhances the learning of university students. This work aims to analyze the average of the final grades of students of the Cartographic and Surveying Engineering undergraduate course in four cases: with three monitoring schedules, with two monitoring, with one monitoring and without monitoring; thus, verifying the occurrence of improvement in students' learning according to their final average grade. The students' means were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and were compared using the Tukey´s test. 5% was considered as the level of significance. The statistical computational system R was used for all analyzes. We found that monitoring is of essential importance in the lives of academics, its inclusion provided an increase in the average grade of students in the Statistics and Probability component in the Cartographic and Surveying Engineering undergraduate course. We can say that monitoring is a factor that influences the average of students.