I analyze data from the attitudes of 56 preservice primary teachers related to their role as continuing students of statistics. The variables investigated include preservice primary teachers' (1) attitudes toward future professional development in statistics, (2) current knowledge of statistics, (3) current statistical self-efficacy, and (4) current self-efficacy to learn statistics in the future. My results suggest that (1) current self-efficacy to learn statistics in the future is a moderate predictor of preservice primary teacher beliefs that future professional development in statistics will help their classroom teaching, and (2) current self-efficacy to learn statistics in the future can vary for preservice primary teachers throughout their preparation program.
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