Vaughan Van Appel|Rina Durandt
Dissimilarities in Attitudes between Students in Service and Mainstream Courses towards Statistics: An Analysis Conducted in a Developing Country
University of Johannesburg|University of Johannesburg
study firstly investigate attitudinal differences towards statistics students developing country service module mainstream courses secondly differences attitudes time beginning end courses knowledge regarding descriptive inferential statistics required students tertiary level many disciplines literature confirms especially developing countries underpreparedness year levels inadequate performance low motivation students courses international acknowledged instrument sats36 revealed students different faculties initial attitudes towards statistics six components affect cognitive competence value difficulty interest effort statistical significant differences pre posttest data main implication findings students faculties tend decrease attitudinal scores time educators take awareness designing pedagogy statistics modules