Examining the Factor Structure of the Survey of Attitudes towards Statistics among Undergraduate Health Science Students

Autor/inn/en	Ayebo, Abraham; Bright, Jered; Ballam, Christian
Titel	Examining the Factor Structure of the Survey of Attitudes towards Statistics among Undergraduate Health Science Students
Quelle	In: International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 15 (2020) 1, (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1306-3030
Schlagwörter	Attitude Measures; Statistics; Factor Structure; Undergraduate Students; Health Sciences; Introductory Courses; Student Attitudes; Scores; Factor Analysis; Psychometrics; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Statistik; Faktorenstruktur; Einführungskurs; Schülerverhalten; Faktorenanalyse; Psychometry; Psychometrie
Abstract	Recent studies report that students' attitudes toward statistics play an important role in their statistics achievement. The goal of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the "Survey of Attitudes Towards Statistics" (SATS-28) among undergraduate health science students enrolled in an introductory statistics course. Most students held positive attitudes towards statistics. The average SATS scores were above neutral. Confirmatory factor analysis validated the four-factor structure of the questionnaire (Affect, Cognitive Competence, Value, and Difficulty), albeit with a few modifications. The RMSEA value of 0.065 was below the suggested cutoff of 0.07. Cronbach's alpha for the entire scale was .907, which was well above the recommended cutoff value of 0.7. The study provided evidence for the appropriate metric properties of the SATS-28 as a valid instrument for measuring the statistics attitudes of a sample of first year students at the University of Minnesota Rochester. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01