Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Statistics in Social Science Degrees

Rejón‐Guardia, Francisco; Vich-I-Martorell, Gabriel Àngel; Juaneda, Catalina; Cladera, Magdalena

doi:10.21125/edulearn.2019.0784

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“…The results in this study regarding gender differences in attitudes towards statistics are in line and almost identical with previous investigations [27,28]. The men undergraduate respondents had more positive attitudes towards statistics.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Men students had marginally higher values in the dimensions of Competence, Value, and Interest, while women students had higher scores in Effort. Rejón-Guardia et al [28] confirmed this tendency with almost the same conclusion. Women had significantly lower mean scores in Value, Competence, and Affect, but higher scores in Effort.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…The only difference between these two papers is that Affect was substituted for Interest. While Hommik and Luik [27] reported higher scores for men in Interest, Rejon-Guardia et al [28] did not register any gender difference for this factor, but for the dimension Affect, which scored in favor of men. Hannigan et al [29] also found a gender gap with higher scores for men in Competence and Affect.…”

Section: Gender and Attitudes Towards Statisticsmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…To ensure a higher score of goodness-of-fit, some researchers conducted an explanatory factor analysis and therefore used adjusted versions of SATS-36. In line with many other papers [28,[55][56][57], this procedure was not considered here. The original version is widely used internationally.…”

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Attitudes towards Statistics among Business Students: Do Gender, Mathematical Skills and Personal Traits Matter?

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The purpose of this article was to investigate different variables, by combining mathematical skills and personal traits using The Big Five Model, to see which have the most influence on business students’ attitudes towards statistics. The Big Five personality traits make up a model for capturing various personal characteristics. Specifically, we aimed to understand why there is a gender difference in attitudes towards statistics. Statistical skills are a key factor for success in business studies. The chosen methods were pairwise comparisons (t-test) and a linear regression model, using a sample from a Norwegian business school. The finding was that there is a substantial gender gap towards attitudes towards statistics but taking mathematical skills and personal characteristics into consideration then results in this gap becoming much smaller. Furthermore, mathematical skills and personal traits were shown to have an impact on students’ attitudes towards statistics.

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“…Usando el SATS, pero en una línea afín a Auzmendi (1991), Hommik y Luik (2017) en estudiantes de secundaria estonianos, Rejón-Guardia, Vich-I-Martorell, Juaneda y Cladera (2019) en estudiantes universitarios españoles de ciencias sociales y Opstad (2020) en estudiantes universitarios noruegos de economía reportaron un promedio en Valor más alto en hombres que en mujeres. También, en los hombres, los promedios fueron más altos en Competencia e Interés en el estudio de Hommik y Luik (2017); en Competencia y Afecto en el de Rejón-Guardia et al (2019); y en Interés y Afecto en el de Opstad (2020). No obstante, el promedio en Esfuerzo fue más alto en mujeres que en hombres y no hubo diferencia en Dificultad en estos tres estudios.…”

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Un modelo bifactor para la Escala de Actitudes hacia la Estadística

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Los objetivos del estudio fueron determinar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Actitudes hacia la Estadística en México. En este estudio instrumental, se analizó una muestra no probabilística de 383 estudiantes de psicología mexicanos que respondieron a dos escalas actitudinales. El modelo bifactor definido por un factor general y tres factores específicos (seguridad, agrado-utilidad y motivación) mostró las mejores propiedades de ajuste a los datos y de validez convergente en sus modelos de medida. La actitud promedio fue neutra y más positiva en hombres que en mujeres. El factor general de actitud hacia la estadística tuvo correlación alta con actitud hacia la investigación. Se concluye el bifactor de tres factores representa mejor la relación entre los ítems que el modelo original de cinco factores correlacionados.

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Assessing the attitudes of economics students towards econometrics

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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Statistics in Social Science Degrees

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Attitudes towards Statistics among Business Students: Do Gender, Mathematical Skills and Personal Traits Matter?

Attitudes towards Statistics among Business Students: Do Gender, Mathematical Skills and Personal Traits Matter?

Un modelo bifactor para la Escala de Actitudes hacia la Estadística

Assessing the attitudes of economics students towards econometrics

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