Open AccessATTITUDES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN STATISTICS: A META-ANALYSIS STUDY
Author(s) -
Esma Emmioğlu,
Yeşim Çapa Aydın
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
statistics education research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1570-1824
DOI - 10.52041/serj.v11i2.332
Subject(s) - statistics , psychology , affect (linguistics) , competence (human resources) , descriptive statistics , cognition , meta analysis , mathematics education , academic achievement , econometrics , social psychology , mathematics , medicine , communication , neuroscience
This study examined the relationships among statistics achievement and four components of attitudes toward statistics (Cognitive Competence, Affect, Value, and Difficulty) as assessed by the SATS. Meta-analysis results revealed that the size of relationships differed by the geographical region in which the studies were conducted as well as by the component of statistics attitudes being examined. Medium effect sizes were found between statistics achievement and scores on the Affect and Cognitive Competence components for studies conducted in the United States whereas those conducted in other countries yielded small effect sizes. The Value and Difficulty components exhibited small effect sizes for both regions. In every case, the U.S. effect sizes were about double in size in comparison to those from non-U.S. countries.
First published November 2012 at Statistics Education Research Journal: Archives