Development and validation of an instrument to measure statistical anxiety

Book: 
American Statistical Association 1985 Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education
Authors: 
Cruise, R. J., Cash, R. W., & Bolton, D. L.
Type: 
Proceedings
Category: 
Research
Pages: 
92-97
Year: 
1985
Publisher: 
American Statistical Association
Place: 
Washington, D. C.
Abstract: 

The Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) was developed to measure statistical anxiety. Statistical anxiety is defined as the feelings of anxiety encountered when taking a statistics course or doing statistical analyses. Eighty-nine items were generated and presented to a sample of 1150 statistics students. STARS can be used by statistics teachers to help diagnose areas of high anxiety.

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