Students’ Attitude and Anxiety Towards Statistics A Descriptive Analysis

Authors : Mira Khalisa ROSLİ, Siti Mistima MAAT, Nda ROSLİ

Pages : 47-56

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Publication Date : 2017-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Statistical knowledge is important to students as they will need to apply it on their research or projects. Basically, every major specially major in education offered research methodology courses that will covered basic knowledge on statistics in terms of computation and statistical application. The purpose of this study is to determine the students’ attitude towards statistics and statiscal anxiety among postgraduate students in faculty of education. There are 199 respondents involved in this study which consists of 45 males and 154 females students. Two sets of questionnaire, Survey of Attitude toward Statistics-36 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SATS-36); and Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(STARS); were distributed among the students. Each of the questionnaire consists of 42 and 51 items respectively. Based on the findings, students’ attitude and statistical anxiety were both at a moderate level. Addressing students’ attitude and statistical anxiety is really necessary in promoting better learning and understanding in statistical literacy
Keywords : Statistical anxiety  Attitude toward statistics  Graduate students