كليدواژه :
نگرش , تغيير نگرش , آموزش آمار , مقياس بررسي نگرش به آمار SATS
چكيده لاتين :
In the present research the main purpose was to study the factor structure and reliability of the Persian version of Survey of Attitude Toward Statistics (SATS) among students of Islamic Azad University (IAU) Abadan Branch and the minor purpose was to determine its relationship with gender and fields of study in high school. In order to accomplish the study, a sample of 250 students (121 male and 129 female) studying in first semester in academic year of 2006-07 were randomly selected. SATS scale is made up of 4 subscales of affective attitude, cognitive attitude, value, and difficulty of the statistics. The construct validity of the Persian version of SATS was calculated through confirmatory factor analysis. For each subscale, the Alpha Cronbach reliability index was calculated and the reliability index of all subscales was 0.79, 0.76, 0.82, 0.57 and die index for all subscales was 0.89. Applying independent group t-test indicated that there was a significant difference between male and female regarding the subscales of affective attitude, cognitive attitude, value, and total scale of attitudes toward statistics. The male had better attitudes toward statistics than the female. To study the differences in attitudes toward statistics from their courses they had in high school, one-way ANOVA was used and showed that there was a significant difference among the studentsʹ fields of study in high school for subscales of affective attitude, cognitive attitude, value and also the total attitudes toward statistics. LSD test also indicated that students studying in humanities during high school had more negative attitude toward statistics.
