Monitoring attitudes and beliefs in statistics education


Book: 
The assessment challenge in statistics education
Authors: 
Gal, I., Ginsburg, L., & Schau, C.
Editors: 
Gal, I., & Garfiled, J.
Type: 
Category: 
Pages: 
37-51
Year: 
1997
Publisher: 
IOS Press
Place: 
Amsterdam, Holland
Abstract: 

Students' attitudes and beliefs can impede (or assist) learning statistics, and may affect the extent to which students will develop useful statistical thinking skills and apply what they have learned outside the classroom. This chapter alerts educators to the importance of assessing student attitudes and beliefs regarding statistics, describes and evaluates different methods developed to assess where students stand in this regard, provides suggestions for using and extending existing assessments, and outlines future research and instructional needs.

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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