Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics

Many statistics lecturers and statistics education researchers are interested to know the perception of their students’ attitudes toward statistics during the statistics course. In statistics course, positive attitude toward statistics is a vital because it will be encourage students to get interest...

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Main Authors:	Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward, Mohd Rashid, Ab Hamid, Roslinazairimah, Zakaria
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	QA Mathematics
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spelling	ump-88372018-02-06T07:17:47Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8837/ Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward Mohd Rashid, Ab Hamid Roslinazairimah, Zakaria QA Mathematics Many statistics lecturers and statistics education researchers are interested to know the perception of their students’ attitudes toward statistics during the statistics course. In statistics course, positive attitude toward statistics is a vital because it will be encourage students to get interested in the statistics course and in order to master the core content of the subject matters under study. Although, students who have negative attitudes toward statistics they will feel depressed especially in the given group assignment, at risk for failure, are often highly emotional, and could not move forward. Therefore, this study investigates the students’ attitude towards learning statistics. Six latent constructs have been the measurement of students’ attitudes toward learning statistic such as affect, cognitive competence, value, difficulty, interest, and effort. The questionnaire was adopted and adapted from the reliable and validate instrument of Survey of Attitudes towards Statistics (SATS). This study is conducted among engineering undergraduate engineering students in the university Malaysia Pahang (UMP). The respondents consist of students who were taking the applied statistics course from different faculties. From the analysis, it is found that the questionnaire is acceptable and the relationships among the constructs has been proposed and investigated. In this case, students show full effort to master the statistics course, feel statistics course enjoyable, have confidence that they have intellectual capacity, and they have more positive attitudes then negative attitudes towards statistics learning. In conclusion in terms of affect, cognitive competence, value, interest and effort construct the positive attitude towards statistics was mostly exhibited. While negative attitudes mostly exhibited by difficulty construct. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8837/1/fist-2015-hassan-Comparative%20Analysis%20Of%20Positive.pdf Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward and Mohd Rashid, Ab Hamid and Roslinazairimah, Zakaria (2015) Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics. In: AIP Conference Proceeding, 212, 1643 :The 2nd ISM International Statistical Conference (ISM-II 2014), 12-14 August 2014 , MS Garden Hotel, Kuantan. p. 212.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4907447
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description	Many statistics lecturers and statistics education researchers are interested to know the perception of their students’ attitudes toward statistics during the statistics course. In statistics course, positive attitude toward statistics is a vital because it will be encourage students to get interested in the statistics course and in order to master the core content of the subject matters under study. Although, students who have negative attitudes toward statistics they will feel depressed especially in the given group assignment, at risk for failure, are often highly emotional, and could not move forward. Therefore, this study investigates the students’ attitude towards learning statistics. Six latent constructs have been the measurement of students’ attitudes toward learning statistic such as affect, cognitive competence, value, difficulty, interest, and effort. The questionnaire was adopted and adapted from the reliable and validate instrument of Survey of Attitudes towards Statistics (SATS). This study is conducted among engineering undergraduate engineering students in the university Malaysia Pahang (UMP). The respondents consist of students who were taking the applied statistics course from different faculties. From the analysis, it is found that the questionnaire is acceptable and the relationships among the constructs has been proposed and investigated. In this case, students show full effort to master the statistics course, feel statistics course enjoyable, have confidence that they have intellectual capacity, and they have more positive attitudes then negative attitudes towards statistics learning. In conclusion in terms of affect, cognitive competence, value, interest and effort construct the positive attitude towards statistics was mostly exhibited. While negative attitudes mostly exhibited by difficulty construct.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward Mohd Rashid, Ab Hamid Roslinazairimah, Zakaria
author_facet	Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward Mohd Rashid, Ab Hamid Roslinazairimah, Zakaria
author_sort	Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward
title	Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics
title_short	Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics
title_full	Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics
title_fullStr	Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics
title_full_unstemmed	Comparative Analysis Of Positive And Negative Attitudes Toward Statistics
title_sort	comparative analysis of positive and negative attitudes toward statistics
publishDate	2015
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