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Activity Number: 506
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #306439
Title: Understanding Students' Attitudes Toward Statistics: New Perspectives Using Expectancy Value Theory of Motivation and the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics
Author(s): Caroline Ann Ramirez*+ and Esma Emmioglu and Candace Schau
Companies: University of California, Davis and Middle East Technical University and CS Consultants, LLC
Address: School of Education, Stockton, CA, 95204,
Keywords: students' attitudes ; SATS ; statistics education
Abstract:

Many statistics educators believe that students' attitudes toward statistics are important. We assert that current educational achievement motivation models, especially Eccles' Expectancy-Value Model (EVM), can assist us in understanding these attitudes. We have reframed the EVM, applying it to students enrolled in statistics courses. We show the congruence between EVM and the Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics© or SATS©. We then describe how this Model and the SATS© can be important in statistics education, both in evaluating and improving instruction and in research. (Abstract ID: 306439)


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