@article{education20142124,
author={{Garc¨ªa-Santill¨¢n, Arturo and Escalera-Ch¨¢vez, Milka E. and Rojas-Kramer, Carlos A. and Pozos-Texon, Felipe J.},
title={Empirical Study on Students and their Attitudes toward Statistics Course and Statistical Field},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={2},
number={12},
pages={1151--1159},
year={2014},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/2/12/4},
issn={2333-4770},
abstract={The aim of this study was to verify whether there are significant differences between the profiles of the mean score students from a sample of three universities, regarding attitude toward the statistics¡¯ course and attitude toward the statistical field. The universities were: Universidad Crist¨®bal Col¨®n (UCC), Universidad Polit¨¦cnica de Aguascalientes (UPA) and Universidad Aut¨®noma de San Luis Potos¨ª (UASLP). The <i>Attitudes toward Statistics (ATS)</i> scale -proposed by Wise in 1985- was utilized for this purpose<i>.</i> The survey was conducted among 672 students enrolled in mathematics courses, and data were processed through discriminant analysis. The results suggest that the ATS of students at UPA are distinct from the attitude observed on students at UCC, and the ATS of students at UASLP are different from students at UCC and UPA.},
doi={10.12691/education-2-12-4}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}