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The Relationship Between Doctoral Students' Self-Reported Type Of Statistics Anxiety And Final Grades In An Online Statistics Course, Kirsten Hoegh
The Relationship Between Doctoral Students' Self-Reported Type Of Statistics Anxiety And Final Grades In An Online Statistics Course, Kirsten Hoegh
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Statistics anxiety is an issue for many students, particularly those in degree programs in the social sciences. These students may have very limited mathematics or statistics backgrounds and may experience negative attitudes or feelings of anxiety when faced with taking a statistics course. Enrollment in online doctoral programs in the social sciences is growing, and these programs typically require at least one statistics or quantitative methods course. Many online doctoral students experience some form of statistics anxiety, which could result in poor course performance. The purpose of the current study was to determine if there was a predictive relationship between …