Shawn Loewen|Elizabeth Lavolette|Le Anne Spino|Mostafa Papi|Jens Schmidtke|Scott Sterling|Dominik Wolff
Statistical Literacy Among Applied Linguists and Second Language Acquisition Researchers
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importance statistical knowledge applied linguistics second language acquisition sla research emphasized recent publications however last investigation statistical literacy applied linguists occurred 25 years ago lazaraton riggenbach amp ediger 1987 current study undertook partial replication older work investigating applied linguists general experiences statistics b underlying factors constitute applied linguists knowledge attitudes toward statistics c variables predict attitudes toward statistics statistical selfefficacy three hundred thirtyone scholars applied linguistics sla completed questionnaire eighty percent taken statistics class however 14 doctoral students 30 professors felt statistical training adequate factor analysis participants knowledge statistical terms revealed three factors common inferential statistics knowledge advanced statistics knowledge basic descriptive statistics knowledge analysis participants attitudes toward statistics revealed two factors statistics important lack statistical confidence regression analyses found quantitative research orientation strongest predictor positive attitudes toward statistics nevertheless participants also expressed support qualitative research recommendations improving quantitative methods field made based findings