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Statistics Attitudes and Anxiety

Attitudes toward statistics and statistical software have an impact on students’ ability to learn and engage with statistical material. Finding teaching strategies and tools that can help boost positive attitudes will help students succeed in their statistics courses.

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Current Projects:

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  • Factors associated with students feeling competent using statistical software (submitted for publication)

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  • Exploring undergraduates' expectations for psychology statistics courses (Maisha MA thesis)

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  • Survey of Statistics Anxiety (SoSA): A modern measure of statistics anxiety

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  • How do cognitive appraisals affect statistics cognitive competence at the end of a statistics course? (Aishvien BA thesis)

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  • How does instructor style impact student attitudes and anxiety in a statistics course?​

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Select Publications: 

 

Alter, U., Dang, C., Kunicki, Z., & Counsell, A. (2024). The VSSL Scale: A brief instructor tool for assessing students' perceived value of software to learning statistics. Teaching Statistics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12374 

 

Terry, J., Ross, R. M., Nagy, T., Salgado, M., Garrido-Vasquez, P., Sarfo, J. O., Cooper, S., Buttner, A. C., … Alter, U... Counsell, A., …, & Field, A. P. (2023). Data from an international multi-centre study of statistics and mathematics anxieties and related variables in university students (the SMARVUS dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(8), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80

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Counsell, A., Rovetti, J., & Buchanan, E. (2022). Psychometric evaluation of the Students’ Attitudes toward Statistics and Technology Scale (SASTSc). Statistics Education Research Journal 21(3), 1-18 . https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v21i3.29

 

Kunicki, Z., Counsell, A., & Harlow, L. L. (2022). Psychometric evaluations of eight attitudes towards quantitative methods measures. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 8(1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000225  

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Counsell, A., & Cribbie, R. A. (2020). Student attitudes toward learning statistics with R. Psychology Teaching Review, 26(2), 36 -56.

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