What do beginning students understand the term “statistics” to mean?
26 As mentioned earlier, one reason for developing the SAS and the ATS was to aid in initial diagnosis of students’ attitudes towards statistics. In this context any examination of the meaning of the scores generated by the ATS and SAS (or other instruments using similar items) needs to consider that all the items on these instruments include statements using the word statistics. (Examples from the SAS include “It takes me a long time to understand a statistical concept” and “There are so many statistical concepts to learn that I get confused.”) 27 How the word “statistics” is interpreted by respondents to surveys of attitudes towards statistics is a major point for concern. While the word “statistics” should be imbued with some meaning for students who are finishing a statistics course, many students who are just beginning their first statistics course have little sense of what “statistics” includes; to the extent that students attach some meaning to the term “statistics,” our concern
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