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Statistics Anxiety and Mathematics Anxiety: Some Interesting Differences I
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Statistics anxiety is hypothesized to be a closely related but a distinct construct from mathematics anxiety. However, many incorrectly conceive that statistics anxiety is the same construct as mathematics anxiety. Confusing statistics anxiety and mathematics anxiety is common among students as well as researchers. Frequent appearance of statistics courses within mathematics departments and statistically significant relationships between mathematics anxiety and statistics anxi...
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Statistics Anxiety and Mathematics Anxiety: Some Interesting Differences I
Educational Research Quarterly
; Abstract Statistics anxiety is hypothesized to be a closely related but a distinct construct from mathematics anxiety. However, many incorrectly conceive that statistics anxiety is the same construct as mathematics anxiety. Confusing statistics anxiety and mathematics anxiety is common among
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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Children.
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
; Confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Children (Chiu & Henry. 1990) measures an internally consistent, unidimensional construct. Construct validity (i.e., correlations with state anxiety, trait anxiety, and quantitative ability) was demonstrated. The
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Statistics Anxiety and the Role of Self-Perceptions.
The Journal of Educational Research
; The introductory research methodology course and statistics course are particularly important because they are typically the only formal exposure to statistics received by graduate students in social science programs. The students' experiences in those courses may cement their attitudes toward the
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Mathematics anxiety and learning styles: what is the relationship in elementary preservice teachers?
School Science and Mathematics
; The study investigated the relationship between elementary preservice teachers' mathematics anxiety levels and learning style preferences. Subjects included 72 preservice teachers at a midsized southeastern U.S. university who were at the end of their third year of study. The subjects completed the
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Mathematics Anxiety and Test Anxiety: Separate Constructs?
The Journal of Experimental Education
; ABSTRACT. The authors used correlational and confirmatory factor analytic techniques to examine the relationship between measures of the constructs of mathematics anxiety and test anxiety. The correlations found between measures of the 2 constructs were nearly as high as those found within measures
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Measuring statistics anxiety using a stage theory.
Academic Exchange Quarterly
; Abstract To test a stage theory of statistics anxiety, we developed three scales to measure statistics anxiety at the input (Statistical Input Anxiety Scale), processing (Statistical Processing Anxiety Scale), and output (Statistical Output Anxiety Scale) stages of the learning process in
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Length of term and levels of statistics anxiety: a comparison of types of offerings.(Manuscripts)
Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal
; ABSTRACT Does the way a course in Business Statistics is offered affect the levels of statistics anxiety of the students in the class? The Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) was administered to students during the first week of four different types of offerings: MWF (fifteen week semester, 50
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Evidence of score reliability and validity of the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale among technikon students in South Africa.
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
; R. J. Cruise and E. M. Wilkins's (1980) Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS), which measures levels of statistics anxiety, was administered to 169 technikon students (70.9% women) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Evidence of score reliability and validity was provided, suggesting that the
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Psychometric properties of the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale.(Report)
The Psychological Record
; Interest in mathematics anxiety started with the observations of mathematics teachers in the early 1950s. In 1957, Dreger and Aiken introduced mathematics anxiety as a new term to describe students' attitudinal difficulties with mathematics. They defined it as the presence of a syndrome of
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I Cannot Read My Statistics Textbook: The Relationship Between Reading Ability and Statistics Anxiety
The Journal of Negro Education
; Although several antecedents of statistics anxiety have been identified, many of these factors are relatively immutable (e.g., gender) and, at best, identify students who are at risk for debilitative levels of statistics anxiety, thereby having only minimal implications for intervention.
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