Analysing the implementation of study and research paths: the students’ voice

The implementation of study and research paths (SRPs), an inquiry-based instructional proposal elaborated within the Anthropological of the Didactic, has always been analysed from a qualitative perspective, to better understand the factors affecting their ecology, that is, the conditions that enable their management and the constraints hindering it. This paper addresses the SRPs’ ecology through a quantitative analysis of the students' answers to the common final survey of eleven SRPs implemented from 2020 to 2023 in first courses of statistics and accounting for chemistry, biotechnology, engineering, and management degrees. Results show a remarkable uniformity of the students’ positive reception of this new instructional format, despite the differences in their implementation modalities, length, generating questions and subjects. Some sensitive variables affecting the SRPs’ ecology appear, confirming many expected outcomes but also refining others.