Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics
Positive attitude towards learning is vital in order to master the core content of the subject matters under study. This is unexceptional in learning statistics course especially at the university level. Therefore, this study investigates the students’ attitude towards learning statistics. Six varia...
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| author | Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward Ab Hamid, Mohd Rashid Roslinazairimah, Zakaria |
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| description | Positive attitude towards learning is vital in order to master the core content of the subject matters under study. This is unexceptional in learning statistics course especially at the university level. Therefore, this study investigates the students’ attitude towards learning statistics. Six variables or constructs have been identified such as affect, cognitive competence, value, difficulty, interest, and effort. The instrument used for the study is questionnaire that was adopted and adapted from the reliable instrument of Survey of Attitudes towards Statistics© (SATS©). This study is conducted to engineering undergraduate students in one of the university in the East Coast of Malaysia. The respondents consist of students who were taking the applied statistics course from different faculties. The results are analysed in terms of descriptive analysis and it contributes to the descriptive understanding of students’ attitude towards the teaching and learning process of statistics. |
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| spelling | ump-92842020-12-01T08:21:35Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9284/ Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward Ab Hamid, Mohd Rashid Roslinazairimah, Zakaria Q Science (General) Positive attitude towards learning is vital in order to master the core content of the subject matters under study. This is unexceptional in learning statistics course especially at the university level. Therefore, this study investigates the students’ attitude towards learning statistics. Six variables or constructs have been identified such as affect, cognitive competence, value, difficulty, interest, and effort. The instrument used for the study is questionnaire that was adopted and adapted from the reliable instrument of Survey of Attitudes towards Statistics© (SATS©). This study is conducted to engineering undergraduate students in one of the university in the East Coast of Malaysia. The respondents consist of students who were taking the applied statistics course from different faculties. The results are analysed in terms of descriptive analysis and it contributes to the descriptive understanding of students’ attitude towards the teaching and learning process of statistics. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9284/7/Students%E2%80%99%20Attitudes%20Towards%20Learning%20Statistics1.pdf Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward and Ab Hamid, Mohd Rashid and Roslinazairimah, Zakaria (2015) Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics. In: AIP Conference Proceeding, 1660, 050035 : International Conference on Mathematics, Engineering and Industrial Applications (ICoMEIA 2014) , 28-30 May 2015 , Penang, Malaysia. pp. 1-7.. (Published) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4915668 |
| spellingShingle | Q Science (General) Ghulami, Hassan Rahnaward Ab Hamid, Mohd Rashid Roslinazairimah, Zakaria Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics |
| title | Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics |
| title_full | Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics |
| title_fullStr | Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics |
| title_short | Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Statistics |
| title_sort | students’ attitudes towards learning statistics |
| topic | Q Science (General) |
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