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Too Afraid to Learn: Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to Acquiring Quantitative Skills KU Leuven
Quantitative skills are important for studying and understanding social reality. Political science students, however, experience difficulties in acquiring and retaining such skills. Fear of statistics has often been listed among the major causes for this problem. This study aims at understanding the underlying factors for this anxiety and proposes a potential remedy. More specifically, we advocate the integration of quantitative material into ...
Too Afraid to Learn?! Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to the Acquiring of Quantitative Skills KU Leuven
Why are social science students afraid of statistics? In society numbers are omnipresent. Media, corporations and politicians overwhelm people with quantitative information. Numeric skills are important to avoid deception and to function in society. By consequence, these skills are also important for social science students to grasp and understand social reality. We see, however, that these students tend to avoid quantitative methods and even ...
Too Afraid to Learn?! Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to the Acquiring of Quantitative Skills KU Leuven
Why are social science students afraid of statistics? In society numbers are omnipresent. Media, corporations and politicians overwhelm people with quantitative information. Numeric skills are important to avoid deception and to function in society. By consequence, these skills are also important for social science students to grasp and understand social reality. We see, however, that these students tend to avoid quantitative methods and even ...
Measuring statistics attitudes: Structure of the survey of attitudes toward statistics KU Leuven
Although a number of instruments for assessing attitudes toward statistics have been developed, several questions with regard to the structure and item functioning remain unresolved. In this study, the structure of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36), a widely used questionnaire to measure six aspects of students' attitudes toward statistics, is investigated. This study addresses the previously unexplored issue of individual item ...
Win statistics (win ratio, win odds, and net benefit) can complement one another to show the strength of the treatment effect on time-to-event outcomes Hasselt University
Conventional analyses of a composite of multiple time-to-event outcomes use the time to the first event. However, the first event may not be the most important outcome. To address this limitation, generalized pairwise comparisons and win statistics (win ratio, win odds, and net benefit) have become popular and have been applied to clinical trial practice. However, win ratio, win odds, and net benefit have typically been used separately. In this ...
I-Use statistics in education Ghent University
Today's world is overwhelmed with statistics. Virtually, every economic and scientific activity relies to it. And with the modern technology it's easy to visualize these statistics in figures, graphs, charts and maps - making analyses of information even easier. But in education the use of statistics is statistics is taught as part of mathematics often without context or meaning, or is used merely to show a result instead of doing real analysis ...
Mathematics and Statistics Education Challenged by Social Justice Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This presentation aims to clarify the connection between social justice and mathematics and statistics education.
In a first part of the presentation we will present a theoretical frame by which we argue for a solid entanglement of social justice and mathematics and statistics education. Therefore we will go back to the proclamation of human rights and the UNESCO declaration of the right of mathematical literacy. Furthermore we will ...
In a first part of the presentation we will present a theoretical frame by which we argue for a solid entanglement of social justice and mathematics and statistics education. Therefore we will go back to the proclamation of human rights and the UNESCO declaration of the right of mathematical literacy. Furthermore we will ...
The Good, the Beautiful and the Literate: Making Statistics Accessible for Action Vrije Universiteit Brussel
One of the most innovative approaches to the representation of statistics in such a way that the greatest accessibility can be guaranteed, is the ISOTYPE (International System Of Typographic Picture Education), developed by Otto Neurath (see [1] and [2]). As we all know, Neurath, together with Carnap, Schlick, Hahn and others, was one of the founding fathers of logical positivism (or logical empiricism or neo-positivism). At the same time, he ...