ESG

ESG-type items in statistics education

Evaluative Space Grid (ESG) items may provide for a more nuanced understanding of neutral attitudes. This work is in its early stages and is supported by an internal New Scholars Grant from Mount Saint Vincent University.

ESG-type items in statistics education

Investigation of Bivariate Grid-Type Items for Measuring Attitudes in Statistics Education: Preliminary Results

Likert-type items are ubiquitous in attitude research in statistics education but imply a reciprocal relationship between positivity …

May 30, 2022 — Virtual (SSC 2022)

Douglas Whitaker

Investigation of Bivariate Grid-Type Items for Measuring Attitudes in Statistics Education: Preliminary Results

Measuring opportunity cost in statistics using evaluative space grid items: results from a pilot study

Challenges to measuring students’ attitudes toward statistics remain despite decades of focused research. Measuring the …

Douglas Whitaker, Joseph Barss, Bailey Drew

Measuring opportunity cost in statistics using evaluative space grid items: results from a pilot study

GridItemTools: Grid item tools

Douglas Whitaker, Bailey Drew, Joseph Barss

GridItemTools: Grid item tools

Challenges assessing statistics attitudes: opportunities and costs

Eccles and colleagues’ Expectancy-value theory (EVT; 1983) has been widely-used in education research, and the cost component of this …

Douglas Whitaker

Challenges assessing statistics attitudes: Opportunities and costs

This presentation compares different ways to assess the Expectancy Value Theory construct, Cost, using instruments in statistics …

Mar 6, 2020 — Las Vegas, Nevada (RCML 2020)

Douglas Whitaker

Challenges assessing statistics attitudes: Opportunities and costs