Affiliation:
1. Government Arts & Commerce College, Kachhal, India
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to measure the students’ attitude towards statistics subject and effect of discovery of knowledge after the completion. It is necessary to define a certain type of research parameters, so we have chosen students from higher education who take statistics as a subject in post graduate students of South Gujarat region. We randomly sampled 100 students from the management college. Factor analysis has been used here to extract the factor that affects the decision of students for directly or indirectly. We referred such parameters such as Likeness, anxiety, interest, confidence, understanding, motivation, usefulness into real world, statistical jargon, worried about test result, not to interpret test result, peer group thinking, irrelevant, computer literacy and online open sources softwares like SPSS.
Reference11 articles.
1. Auzmendi, E. (1992). Las actitudes hacia la matemática-estadística en las enseñanzas medias y universitarias. Bilbao: Mensajero.
2. Bayot, A.; Mondéjar, J.; Mondéjar, J.A.; Monsalve, F. and Vargas, M. (2005). The Difficulties of Learning Concepts in the Social Sciences. In Misztal, M. and M. Trawinski (eds.) Studies in Teacher Education: Psichopedagogy, 242-258. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej.
3. Beins, B.C. (1985). Teaching the relevance of statistics trough consumer-oriented research. Teaching of Psychology, 12, 168-169.
4. Carmona, J. (2004). Una revisión de las evidencias de fiabilidad y validez de los cuestionarios de actitudes y ansiedad hacia la estadística. Statistics Education Research Journal, 3(1), 5-28.
5. Darias, E. (2000). Escala de actitudes hacia la estadística. Psicothema, 12 (2), 175-178.