Reliability and Validity of a Statistics Attitude Survey.

Roberts, Dennis M.; Bilderback, Edward W.

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Publication Date: 1980

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Reliability and Validity of a Statistics Attitude Survey.

Roberts, Dennis M.; Bilderback, Edward W.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, v40 n1 p235-38 Spr 1980

A 34-item scale entitled Statistics Attitude Survey (SAS) was developed and administered to three samples of students taking a beginning statistics course. Analyses showed that the scale was highly homogeneous and that total scale scores had moderate correlations with statistics grades. (Author)

Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Mathematics, College Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Predictive Validity, Statistics, Test Construction, Test Reliability

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Language: English

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