Book:
Proceedings of the 20th annual meetings of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia: People in Mathematics Education (MERGA)
Editors:
Biddulph, F. & Carr, K.
Type:
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Year:
1997
Publisher:
University of Waikato Printery
URL:
See compilation of Research Papers from 1997 ID # 2852 (Garfield & Truran)
Abstract:
In this study I look at university students' orientations to learning statistics--how they feel about learning it, their conceptions of the subject matter and their approaches to learning it. I use complementary methods of anlysis to understand the relationships among students' appraisals and attainments on assessments. The findings reveal underlying dimensions of the variables and present dramatically different profiles of students' experiences. Students' learning is linked to a complex web of personal, social and contextual factors.
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