This study compared levels of statistics anxiety and attitude toward statistics for graduate<br><br>students in on-campus and online statistics courses. The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics<br><br>and three subscales of the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale were administered at the beginning and<br><br>end of graduate level educational statistic courses. Significant effects were observed for two<br><br>anxiety scales (Interpretation and Test and Class Anxiety) and two attitude scales (Affect and<br><br>Difficulty). Observed decreases in anxiety and increases in attitudes by online students offer<br><br>encouragement to faculty that materials and techniques can be used to reduce anxiety and<br><br>hopefully enhance learning within online statistics courses
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education