The development of a scale measuring attitudes toward statistics

This study describes the development of a new instrument entitled Attitudes Toward Statistics (ATS), to be used in the measurement of attitude change in introductory statistics students. Two ATS subscales are identified, labeled Attitude Toward Course, and Attitude Toward the Field, respectively. These subscales are shown to have both high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. It is further shown that each ATS subscale provides distinctly different information about the attitudes of introductory statistics students.