Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics
The objective of this research was to identify the students' behavior from Management and Accounting Courses in respect to the subject Statistics. The student's profile was obtained by the use of issues, the SATS scale (Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics), applied to 337 students from M...
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| author | Daielly Melina Nassif Mantovani Maria Flávia Barbosa Leite Guilherme Farias Shiraishi Adriana Backx Noronha Viana |
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| description | The objective of this research was to identify the students' behavior from Management and Accounting Courses in respect to the subject Statistics. The student's profile was obtained by the use of issues, the SATS scale (Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics), applied to 337 students from Management and Accounting Courses from 2 colleges. The research indicates 2 dimensions of attitude reached by factor analysis, denominated value and cognitive competence and difficulty. Cluster analysis was applied and found four groups of students, one of them has positive attitudes, one has negative attitudes and two don't have well defined attitudes. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis were applied to verify the differences between the clusters attitudes, among the courses attitudes and between male and female attitudes. Students present positive behavior in connection to Statistics. However, there is an unfavorable behavior about the complexity of Statistics and their beliefs about learning statistical concepts and tools. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e74ce883b7b943d6917fc6ed709795c62023-12-03T02:10:34ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaRevista de Ciências da Administração : RCA1516-38652175-80772009-09-011125366710.5007/2175-8077.2009v11n25p3610865Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statisticsDaielly Melina Nassif Mantovani0Maria Flávia Barbosa Leite1Guilherme Farias Shiraishi2Adriana Backx Noronha Viana3FEA-RP/USPFEA-RP/USPFEA-RP/USPFEA-RP/USPThe objective of this research was to identify the students' behavior from Management and Accounting Courses in respect to the subject Statistics. The student's profile was obtained by the use of issues, the SATS scale (Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics), applied to 337 students from Management and Accounting Courses from 2 colleges. The research indicates 2 dimensions of attitude reached by factor analysis, denominated value and cognitive competence and difficulty. Cluster analysis was applied and found four groups of students, one of them has positive attitudes, one has negative attitudes and two don't have well defined attitudes. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis were applied to verify the differences between the clusters attitudes, among the courses attitudes and between male and female attitudes. Students present positive behavior in connection to Statistics. However, there is an unfavorable behavior about the complexity of Statistics and their beliefs about learning statistical concepts and tools.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/adm/article/view/13076atitudes. avaliação educacional. estatística aplicada |
| spellingShingle | Daielly Melina Nassif Mantovani Maria Flávia Barbosa Leite Guilherme Farias Shiraishi Adriana Backx Noronha Viana Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics Revista de Ciências da Administração : RCA atitudes. avaliação educacional. estatística aplicada |
| title | Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics |
| title_full | Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics |
| title_fullStr | Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics |
| title_short | Attitudes of applied Social Science Courses’ students toward statistics |
| title_sort | attitudes of applied social science courses students toward statistics |
| topic | atitudes. avaliação educacional. estatística aplicada |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/adm/article/view/13076 |
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