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ERIC Number: ED477936
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2002-Nov
Pages: 24
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Breaking Ground for EncStat: A Statistics Anxiety Intervention Program.
Watson, Freda S.; Lang, Thomas R.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D.
A team of researchers at the University of South Florida is developing a multimedia program to identify and help students with statistics anxiety. This program, EncStat, includes tests that provide information about a student's level of anxiety and negative attitudes toward statistics, computer anxiety, and study skills, and it contains instruction on how statistics anxiety affects learning, with guidance on modifying counterproductive behaviors, thoughts, and feelings resulting from statistics anxiety. Research has suggested that the Survey of Attitudes Towards Statistics (SATS; Schau, Stevens, Dauphinee, and Del Vecchio, 1995) and the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS; R. Cruise, R. Cash, and D. Bolton, 1985) would be useful in the computerized version of EncStat, but combining these scales would result in duplication. This pilot study assessed and compared results for both measures and their subscales as an initial effort toward eliminating duplicative items. Data came from 69 graduate students who took both measures, 1 focus group, and questionnaire responses of 30 of the students. In general, data support the psychometric integrity of both the STARS and SATS, both of which had excellent internal consistency reliability in total and subscale scores. Findings also suggest the instruments sample overlapping domains and point to some options that might be used in EncStat. Student response data show the need for a program like EncStat. (Contains 3 tables and 12 references.) (SLD)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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