Assessing Students' Understanding of the Measures of Central Tendency and Attitude towards Statistics in Rural Secondary Schools

Autor/inn/en	Saidi, Siti Shahirah; Siew, Nyet Moi
Titel	Assessing Students' Understanding of the Measures of Central Tendency and Attitude towards Statistics in Rural Secondary Schools
Quelle	In: International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 14 (2019) 1, S.73-86 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1306-3030
Schlagwörter	Comprehension; Statistics; Student Attitudes; Rural Schools; Secondary School Students; Grade 10; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Student Evaluation; Attitude Measures; Mathematics Achievement; Knowledge Level; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verstehen; Verständnis; Statistik; Schülerverhalten; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Wissensbasis
Abstract	This research was conducted to assess the level of students' understanding of the measures of central tendency and attitude towards statistics. A survey research was conducted on Tenth Graders in nine secondary rural schools in Sabah, Malaysia. A total of 148 students were sampled using stratified random sampling. Statistical Understanding Test of the Measures of Central Tendency and Survey Attitude towards Statistics questionnaire were used as data collection tools. The data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially by using SPSS version 20.0. The results revealed that students' understanding of measures of central tendency was at a moderate level, while their attitude towards statistics was positive. Gender difference was found to be significant in students' understanding of measures of central tendency (p=0.032), but not in their attitude towards statistics. Generally, male students had a higher understanding than the female students. Furthermore, there were no significant relationships between students' understanding of measures of central tendency and attitude towards statistics, except for Effort component (r=- 0.299, p<0.05). The finding showed that students who willingly put a great effort to learn statistics did not necessarily warrant a good understanding of the measures of central tendency. This study implied that Mathematics educators should remind students that the quality of learning with the appropriate learning technique invested in it would warrant better understanding of the measures of central tendency. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01