Counseling Students’ Attitudes toward Statistics

 

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Autors: García-Martínez, José Antonio, Fallas-Vargas, Manuel Arturo, Romero-Hernández, Adriana
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Estat:Versión publicada
Data de publicació:2015
Descripció:This paper presents the findings of a study aimed at analyzing the attitudes toward Statistics of a sample of 223 Counseling students, as well as identifying possible attitude differences by socio-demographic characteristics and prior training in Statistics.  Based on a cross-sectional design, data was collected using SATS (Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics), which includes four components (affective, cognitive competence, value and difficulty), as well as several questions on the participants’ socio-demographic characteristics and prior Statistics training.  Results show a positive attitude toward Statistics among students, both overall and by component. No significant attitude differences were found by socio-demographic characteristics. On the contrary, significant differences were detected according to prior Statistics training, with trained students showing more positive attitudes than untrained ones.  Obtained findings confirm the relevance of including a course in Descriptive Statistics as part of the training of Counseling professionals, as well as the need to analyze the statistical contents included in other courses of the curriculum.
Pais:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:Español
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/6356
Accés en línia:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/6356
Paraula clau:Attitudes toward Statistics
Statistics training
Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics
counseling
students.
Actitudes hacia la estadística
formación en estadística
orientación
estudiantes.