Statistics Anxiety and Statistics Comprehension
Conference Tracks
Learning Theories and Pedagogy – Research
Abstract
While there has been a substantial amount of work on developing tests that measure statistical anxiety, surprisingly there doesn’t appear to be an assessment comparing students’ statistical learning to changes in their statistical anxiety. I administered the STARS test of statistical anxiety and the CAOS test of statistical comprehension at the beginning of an undergraduate statistics class this Fall 2021 and will administer them again at the end. I will test the null hypothesis of no relationship against the alternative hypothesis that that an improvement in statistical comprehension is associated with a reduction in statistical anxiety (overall and its subcomponents).
Session Format
Research Brief and Reflection Panels
1
Publication Type and Release Option
Image (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Martin, David W., "Statistics Anxiety and Statistics Comprehension" (2022). SoTL Commons Conference. 100.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2022/100
Statistics Anxiety and Statistics Comprehension
While there has been a substantial amount of work on developing tests that measure statistical anxiety, surprisingly there doesn’t appear to be an assessment comparing students’ statistical learning to changes in their statistical anxiety. I administered the STARS test of statistical anxiety and the CAOS test of statistical comprehension at the beginning of an undergraduate statistics class this Fall 2021 and will administer them again at the end. I will test the null hypothesis of no relationship against the alternative hypothesis that that an improvement in statistical comprehension is associated with a reduction in statistical anxiety (overall and its subcomponents).
