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MASDER: Developing a instruments to measure attitudes in statistics and data science
The Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education Research (MASDER) research group is developing a family of instruments to measure student and instructor attitudes and characteristics of learning environments for statistics and data science courses. This work is funded by the National Science Foundation (
DUE-2013392
).
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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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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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Epistemic and mathematical beliefs of exemplary statistics teachers
Education research has established that teachers' beliefs matter because they can affect classroom practices and student outcomes, and …
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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Developing embedded signature assessments for continuous improvement in teacher education
Kevin Mason
,
Debbie Stanislawski
,
Douglas Whitaker
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