ERIC Number: EJ1390616
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-982X
EISSN: EISSN-1467-9639
Reducing Statistics Anxiety and Academic Procrastination among Israeli Students: A Pilot Program
Kadosh, Mazi; Hen, Meirav; Ferrari, Joseph R.
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, v45 n3 p167-175 Aut 2023
Many college students consider statistical courses as frightening and demanding, yielding high anxiety and low competence, and correlating with maladaptive academic behaviors and low achievement. With undergraduate students, the present pre-post study compared a supportive online teaching program utilizing mandatory statistical exercises (n = 37) with a no intervention, optional exercise statistics class (n = 32). We evaluated whether our statistics teaching intervention decreased test anxiety and academic procrastination and increased academic self-efficacy and academic achievements. Results indicated a decrease in academic procrastination and test anxiety at course end for intervention group and an increase in test anxiety for control group. At the end of the course intervention group reported higher academic self-efficacy and achievements. Teaching statistics using mandatory supportive activities might contribute to more positive psychological outcomes (eg, higher academic self-efficacy and lower academic procrastination) and higher academic achievements.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Statistics Education, Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety, Time Management, Course Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Test Anxiety, Intervention, Learning Activities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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