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Title:
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ATTITUDES TOWARD STATISTICS IN E-LEARNING COURSES |
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Author(s):
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José Mondéjar Jiménez , Juan Antonio Mondéjar Jiménez , Mª Leticia Meseguer Santamaría |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-58-4 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Scale, attitude, motivation, Statistic |
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Type:
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Poster/Demonstration |
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First Page:
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297 |
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Last Page:
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298 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Nowadays, most of social sciences university study programs, even high schools ones, includes, at least, a
course over statistics contents. It shows the increasing importance concedes to statistics as a basic knowledge
to understand the modern world. Nevertheless, the statistics teaching methodology has no received the proper
consideration.
As a result of the convergence process to establish the european area of higher education, it has been
started a reflection process over the short term aims (to pass the subjects and the long terms aims
(knowledges and skills to work as a professional) as well as the contents (mathematics weight, data
analysis
). Its nevertheless also necessary reflects on the attitude and incentive problems of the students on
respects the statistics subjects, because of its importance as a powerful analytical tool. Following Phillips
(1980), the students attitude to statistics could be an obstacle or an advantage in their learning process.
The main aim of this paper is to analyze the origin of the problems founded about the learning difficulties
of subjects with a high level of statistics looking for more efficient teaching statistics methodology. In order
to get that purpose, the paper will measure the students attitude to statistics and will analyze the e-learning
process trying to find the eventual relation between both questions. |
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