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Factorial Invariance Of The Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale Across Sex And Students’ Classification, Eric D. Teman Ph.D.
Factorial Invariance Of The Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale Across Sex And Students’ Classification, Eric D. Teman Ph.D.
Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.
The Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) was used to measure statistics anxiety across 423 graduate and undergraduate students from a midsized university, in the western United States. Students’ responses were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to assess the validity of scores from the proposed six factor model, which was well-fitting, according to various adjunct fi t indexes. Students’ responses were then examined using multigroup CFA to explore factorial invariance across sex and student classification (i.e., undergraduates and graduates). The model was found to be factorially invariant across sex, but not across student classification, possibly meaning graduate and undergraduate students …