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An Exploratory Study Of Student Attitudes Toward Statistics And Their Retention Of Statistical Concepts, Linda Araki
An Exploratory Study Of Student Attitudes Toward Statistics And Their Retention Of Statistical Concepts, Linda Araki
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The purpose of this exploratory research was to investigate potential factors (i.e. gender, time lapse between the latest statistics class and completion of the statistics test, grade point average (GPA), attitude towards statistics), which are associated with the comprehension and retention of statistical knowledge in Baccalaureate Psychology students. The criterion variable was statistical competency, which was measured in five subdomains: basic concepts, descriptives, correlation/regression, hypothesis testing, and inferential statistics.