This paper is from Session 4J: Innovative projects for statistical education
which comes under Topic 4: Improving teaching and capacity in statistics education
Paper 4J3 (Thursday 12th, 16:00-17:30)
A Framework and Survey for Measuring Instructors’ Motivational Attitudes Toward Statistics
Presenter
- Leyla Batakci (Elizabethtown College, United States)
Co-authors
- Marjorie Bond (Monmouth College, United States)
- Wendine Bolon (Monmouth College, United States)
Abstract
Recently, teachers of statistics have become the subject of increased research in statistics education. However, few instruments have been developed specifically for use with this population, and those instruments focus only on individual constructs, e.g. self-efficacy (Harrell-Williams et al., 2015). As part of the Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (SOMAS) project, surveys to measure instructors' attitudes and classroom characteristics are being developed in addition to surveys for students. The survey for measuring instructor attitudes will be based on Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT) (Eccles, et al., 1983), which parallels the framework used on the student survey. This paper describes the EVT model for instructors' motivational attitudes, the constructs to be assessed by the instructor SOMAS instrument, and future directions for the project.