Influence Of Attitude Towards Statistics, English Language Ability And Mathematical Ability In The Subject Quantitative Techniques At The Vaal Triangle Technikon, South Africa

Book: 
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on teaching statistics, Developing a statistically literate society
Authors: 
Nolan, V.
Editors: 
Phillips, B.
Type: 
Proceedings
Category: 
Research
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
2002
Publisher: 
International Statistical Institute
URL: 
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/8a5_nola.pdf
Abstract: 

This project was a quasi-experiment designed to investigate whether three factors influence student performance in Quantitative Techniques: (a) the attitude of students towards Quantitative Techniques as a service subject, (b) English language ability of students, and (c) Mathematical ability of students. The results show deficiencies in students' competencies with respect to both language and mathematical ability. The overall impression of the students is that their mathematical ability is the major problem.

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

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