A pilot study and research path in statistics at the university level

This paper reports on a university teaching experience in statistics based on a study and research path (SRP), an inquiry-based instructional proposal elaborated within the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD). The SRP corresponds to a pilot case for an ongoing dissemination project aiming at implementing instructional proposals close to the paradigm of questioning the world in the university context. Its description illustrates the ATD characterisation of SRPs in terms of the Herbartian schema and its dialectics. It particularly focuses on the didactic infrastructure created by the lecturer and the elements of the instructional strategy that could be disseminated to other lecturers in other university settings.