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Learning Statistics Using Concept Maps: Effects On Anxiety And Performance, Patrick Francis Cravalho
Learning Statistics Using Concept Maps: Effects On Anxiety And Performance, Patrick Francis Cravalho
Master's Theses
The aim of this thesis was to study the use of concept mapping in an
undergraduate statistics course in order to examine the effects on statistics anxiety and
academic performance by means of a two-group quasi-experimental design. Two
undergraduate statistics classes were recruited for this study with one serving as the
treatment (concept map) group and one serving as the control (standard instruction)
group. It was hypothesized that the use of concept mapping would decrease the statistics
anxiety and improve the academic performance of students in the concept map group
when compared with the control group. The statistics anxiety of …