This is a session of Topic 1: Sustaining strengths and building capacity in statistics education
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The importance of attitudes in statistics education: sustaining learning processes and outcomes
Organizers
- Marjorie Bond (United States) : Session chair
- Candace Schau (United States)
Abstract
Statistics educators increasingly realize that students’ attitudes are important in sustaining strengths and in building capacities in statistics education. This session combines brief presentations of original research on attitudes toward statistics and their implications for statistics education and a mini-panel discussion with the audience about questions and interests regarding attitudes toward statistics. Much of the research included in this session employed the Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics (SATS) as the measure of student attitudes. Our presentations focus on two broad topics. The first examines some of the issues associated with using survey scores to assess students’ attitudes including, for example, the timing of administering the survey. The second topic investigates the use of students’ attitudes as an important outcome when evaluating instructional approaches to teaching introductory statistics. Candace Schau will lead the subsequent discussion around a number of questions regarding the importance of students’ attitudes toward statistics.
Papers
Paper | Title | Presenter / Co-author(s) |
1F1 | Student attitudes toward statistics from a randomization-based curriculum | Todd Swanson (United States) Nathan Tintle (United States) Jill VanderStoep (United States) |
1F2 | How do attitudes change from one stats course to the next? | Anne Michele Millar (Canada) Bethany White (Canada) |
1F3 | A fallacy in student attitude research: the impact of the first class | Michael Posner (United States) |
1F4 | Comparing attitudes toward statistics among students enrolled in project-based and hybrid statistics courses | Caroline Ramirez (United States) Marjorie Bond (United States) |