The Role of Previous Experience and Attitudes Toward Statistics in Statistics Assessment Outcomes among Undergraduate Psychology Students

2009

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Previous research has demonstrated that students' cognitions about statistics are related to their performance in statistics assessments. The purpose of this research is to examine the nature of the relationships between undergraduate psychology students' previous experiences of maths, statistics and computing; their attitudes toward statistics; and assessment on a statistics course. Of the variables examined, the strongest predictor of assessment outcome was students' attitude about their intellectual knowledge and skills in relation to statistics at the end of the statistics curriculum. This attitude was related to students' perceptions of their maths ability at the beginning of the statistics curriculum. Interventions could be designed to change such attitudes with the aim of improving students' learning of statistics.

Subfields: Education, Statistics and Probability

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• ATTITUDES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN STATISTICS: A META-ANALYSIS STUDY (2012, unknown): “…toward statistics and statistics achievement most often reported that attitudes toward statistics are positively related to students’ achievement in statistics courses (e.g., Chiesi & Primi, 2009; Dempster & McCorry, 2009; Sizemore & Lewandowski, 2009; Sorge & Schau, 2002; Tempelaar et al., 2007).”