Difficulties Experienced by Education and Sociology Students in Quantitative Methods Courses

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University Students' Research Orientations: Do negative attitudes exist toward quantitative methods? (2005, methodology): “This result agrees with the findings of Murtonen and Lehtinen (2003), that Finnish education, sociology, and social policy students did not differ in the difficulties experienced on research methodology courses.”
Can You Really Measure That? Combining Critical Race Theory and Quantitative Methods (2018, background): “Finally, strong teaching and graduate school preparation are essential, yet lacking, for quality use of QMs across educational fields (Henson, Hull, & Williams, 2010; Murtonen & Lehtinen, 2010), and possibly by extension also in CRT research.”
Interest-based text preference moderates the effect of text difficulty on engagement and learning (2015, background): “Additionally, research methods are often associated with negative affective states (i.e., anxiety, frustration) and feelings of low self-efficacy (Murtonen & Lehtinen, 2003; Papanastasiou & Zembylas, 2008).”
REVISITING A 90-YEAR-OLD DEBATE: THE ADVANTAGES OF THE MEAN DEVIATION (2005, background): “Students are simply taught that they should use it, but in social science most opt not to use numeric analysis at all anyway (Murtonen and Lehtinen, 2003).”