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Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students

Statistics anxiety is a perennial problem among social science students who are faced with statistics as a programme requirement. At one Department of Psychology in Malaysia, the failure rates for a statistics course, across six semesters spanning 2010 to 2013, were the highest compared to other und...

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Main Authors: Abd Hamid, Harris Shah, Sulaiman, Muhamad Karimi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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BF725 Class psychology
LB1050.9 Educational psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/37294/1/37294.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37294/
http://iafor.org/conference-proceedings-the-fourth-asian-conference-on-psychology-and-the-behavioral-sciences-2014/
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spelling my.iium.irep.37294 http://irep.iium.edu.my/37294/ Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students Abd Hamid, Harris Shah Sulaiman, Muhamad Karimi BF725 Class psychology LB1050.9 Educational psychology LB2300 Higher Education Statistics anxiety is a perennial problem among social science students who are faced with statistics as a programme requirement. At one Department of Psychology in Malaysia, the failure rates for a statistics course, across six semesters spanning 2010 to 2013, were the highest compared to other undergraduate courses. Thus, this study attempts to investigate the relationship between statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students. A survey that included an adapted Statistics Anxiety Scale (SAS) and basic mathematic skills were distributed to the students at the beginning of the semester. Academic performance was measured through mid-semester examination and three quizzes. Scores from 80 students was analysed by linear regression analysis. The adapted SAS had adequate reliability, Cronbach alpha = .946. It was found that both mathematics skills scores and statistics anxiety scores are significant predictors of the overall academic performance. The resulting regression equation was significant, F(2,77)=14.255, p<.001, R2=.270. The results of the study confirmed that academic performance was negatively correlated with statistics anxiety and positively correlated with basic mathematics scores. The SAS can be used for assessing students’ anxiety as part of class intervention, but its factor structure needs further investigation. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37294/1/37294.pdf Abd Hamid, Harris Shah and Sulaiman, Muhamad Karimi (2014) Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students. In: The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences 2014, 28-30 March 2014, Osaka. http://iafor.org/conference-proceedings-the-fourth-asian-conference-on-psychology-and-the-behavioral-sciences-2014/
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topic BF725 Class psychology
LB1050.9 Educational psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
spellingShingle BF725 Class psychology
LB1050.9 Educational psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
Abd Hamid, Harris Shah
Sulaiman, Muhamad Karimi
Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
description Statistics anxiety is a perennial problem among social science students who are faced with statistics as a programme requirement. At one Department of Psychology in Malaysia, the failure rates for a statistics course, across six semesters spanning 2010 to 2013, were the highest compared to other undergraduate courses. Thus, this study attempts to investigate the relationship between statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students. A survey that included an adapted Statistics Anxiety Scale (SAS) and basic mathematic skills were distributed to the students at the beginning of the semester. Academic performance was measured through mid-semester examination and three quizzes. Scores from 80 students was analysed by linear regression analysis. The adapted SAS had adequate reliability, Cronbach alpha = .946. It was found that both mathematics skills scores and statistics anxiety scores are significant predictors of the overall academic performance. The resulting regression equation was significant, F(2,77)=14.255, p<.001, R2=.270. The results of the study confirmed that academic performance was negatively correlated with statistics anxiety and positively correlated with basic mathematics scores. The SAS can be used for assessing students’ anxiety as part of class intervention, but its factor structure needs further investigation.
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Sulaiman, Muhamad Karimi
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title Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
title_short Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
title_full Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
title_fullStr Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
title_full_unstemmed Statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
title_sort statistics anxiety, basic mathematics skills and academic performance among undergraduate psychology students
publishDate 2014
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/37294/1/37294.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37294/
http://iafor.org/conference-proceedings-the-fourth-asian-conference-on-psychology-and-the-behavioral-sciences-2014/
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