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Abstract

This report presents the outcome of an investigation on the attitudes of the students of the Faculty of Education (UCM) towards statistics. A non-experimental-type study has been carried out with an ex-post-facto design and the sampling has been «non- random-available» type, with a sample of 855 subjects from the different degrees of the Faculty: pedagogy, social education and primary and early education, which covers the 73% of the enrolled students at the faculty for the 2013-14 course. The results state, in consistence with previous works, the fact that students approach statistics with a certain degree of uncertainty and their attitudes vary depending on previous experiences which they had had regarding statistics. It is also stated that students from Pedagogy and Social Education seem to have a similar profile but different to the profile of students from teacher training. An scale of attitudes towards statistics (Auzmendi, 1992) has also been applied, which allows the identification of 4 factors in the attittudes, which are related to anxiety/confidence, taste, utility and motivation.

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Title
ACTITUDES HACIA LA ESTADÍSTICA DE LOS ALUMNOS DEL GRADO EN PEDAGOGÍA, EDUCACIÓN SOCIAL, Y MAESTRO DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL Y MAESTRO DE EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA DE LA UCM (ATTITUDES TOWARDS STATISTICS OF STUDENTS IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL EDUCATION, AND PRIMARY AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AT UCM)
Author
de Miguel, Covadonga Ruiz
Pages
351-374
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
1139613X
e-ISSN
21745374
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1693713086
Copyright
Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2015