Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach
Students’ ability to be abreast with the basic concepts in statistics and its applications would help to stay relevant in the modern world due to the dynamic ways of doing things currently. The aims of the study were to assess the psychometric properties of the SATS in the Ghanaian context, to explo...
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| author | Isaac Ofori Asare Dorothy Anima Frimpong Reuben Dzotefe Alice Constance Mensah Samuel Baffoe |
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| description | Students’ ability to be abreast with the basic concepts in statistics and its applications would help to stay relevant in the modern world due to the dynamic ways of doing things currently. The aims of the study were to assess the psychometric properties of the SATS in the Ghanaian context, to explore attitudes influencing factors and the relationship between psychometric properties of SATS and to examine gender-age effects in assessing statistical literacy among students. In this research the study was conducted to acquire a valid instrument to measure attitudes toward statistics in the Ghanaian context. The study surveyed 1000 undergraduate students from 10 universities. In this study, structural equation modeling through confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the six-factor structure of the SATS scale and resulted in good model fit indices. A multi-group analysis was performed, which suggests gender and age have significant influence on some of the psychometric properties of the SATS components. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-512b6b2898934be4abbbf7789626f1f42024-12-02T19:00:47ZengTaylor & FrancisResearch in Statistics2768-45202024-12-012110.1080/27684520.2024.2327343Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approachIsaac Ofori Asare0Dorothy Anima Frimpong1Reuben Dzotefe2Alice Constance Mensah3Samuel Baffoe4Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana;Computer Science Department, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana;Mamprobi Polyclinic, Accra, Ghana;Mathematics and Statistics Department, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana;Applied Mathematics Department, Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, GhanaStudents’ ability to be abreast with the basic concepts in statistics and its applications would help to stay relevant in the modern world due to the dynamic ways of doing things currently. The aims of the study were to assess the psychometric properties of the SATS in the Ghanaian context, to explore attitudes influencing factors and the relationship between psychometric properties of SATS and to examine gender-age effects in assessing statistical literacy among students. In this research the study was conducted to acquire a valid instrument to measure attitudes toward statistics in the Ghanaian context. The study surveyed 1000 undergraduate students from 10 universities. In this study, structural equation modeling through confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the six-factor structure of the SATS scale and resulted in good model fit indices. A multi-group analysis was performed, which suggests gender and age have significant influence on some of the psychometric properties of the SATS components.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/27684520.2024.2327343StudentSstatistics literacyreliabilityconfirmatory factor analysisattitude |
| spellingShingle | Isaac Ofori Asare Dorothy Anima Frimpong Reuben Dzotefe Alice Constance Mensah Samuel Baffoe Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach Research in Statistics Student Sstatistics literacy reliability confirmatory factor analysis attitude |
| title | Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach |
| title_full | Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach |
| title_fullStr | Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach |
| title_short | Gender-age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students: structural equation approach |
| title_sort | gender age effects in assessing attitudes toward statistics among undergraduate students structural equation approach |
| topic | Student Sstatistics literacy reliability confirmatory factor analysis attitude |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/27684520.2024.2327343 |
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