The relationship between attitudes toward statistics, math self-concept, test anxiety, and graduate students' achievement in an introductory statistics course

Authors: 
Perney, J., & Ravid, R.
Type: 
Report
Category: 
Research
Publisher: 
National College of Education
Abstract: 

The major objective of this study was to determine the relationship between academic performance in a statistics course and the students' attitude toward statistics, math self-concept, and attitudes toward tests. A secondary objective was to determine what relationships exist between students' attitudes toward statistics, math self-concept, and attitudes toward tests. A third objective was to investigate the relationship between students' mathematics background and attitude toward statistics, math self-concept, and attitude toward tests.

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