The development of a scale measuring attitudes toward statistics


Authors: 
Wise, S. L.
Category: 
Pages: 
13-Jan
Year: 
1985
Publisher: 
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April
Place: 
Chicago
Abstract: 

This study describes the development of a new instrument entitled Attitudes Toward Statistics (ATS), to be used in the measurement of attitude change in introductory statistics students. Two ATS subscales are identified, labeled Attitude Toward Course, and Attitude Toward the Field, respectively. These subscales are shown to have both high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. It is further shown that each ATS subscale provides distinctly different information about the attitudes of introductory statistics students.

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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