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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
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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
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Measuring opportunity cost in statistics using evaluative space grid items: results from a pilot study
Measuring statistics attitudes and anxieties
Both attitudes and anxiety have long been studied in the statistics education literature. Recently, efforts have been taken to clarify …
May 19, 2020 — Virtual (eCOTS 2020)
Douglas Whitaker, Aaron White
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Measuring statistics attitudes and anxieties
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
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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
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Challenges assessing statistics attitudes: Opportunities and costs
A framework and survey for measuring students’ motivational attitudes toward statistics
The Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (SOMAS) for Students is part of a family of instruments designed to assess …
Jul 11, 2018 — Kyoto, Japan (ICOTS 10)
Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Leyla Batakci
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A framework and survey for measuring students’ motivational attitudes toward statistics
A framework and survey for measuring students’ motivational attitudes toward statistics
The Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (SOMAS) for Students is part of a family of instruments designed to assess …
Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Leyla Batakci
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A framework and survey for measuring students’ motivational attitudes toward statistics
Pre-service mathematics teachers’ attitudes about statistics: Pilot study of a new instrument
This poster reports on a pilot study of a new instrument for assessing preservice and inservice teachers’ attitudes toward statistics, …
Feb 9, 2018 — Houston, Texas (AMTE 2018)
Douglas Whitaker
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Pre-service mathematics teachers’ attitudes about statistics: Pilot study of a new instrument
Surveys of attitudes about statistics: An analysis of items
Attitudes toward statistics are considered important outcomes of introductory statistics courses because they have been linked with …
Oct 6, 2017 — Indianapolis, Indiana (PME-NA 39)
Douglas Whitaker, Kylie Gorney
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Surveys of attitudes about statistics: An analysis of items