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ERIC Number: EJ235504
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Aug
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Relationship between Selected Variables and Statistics Achievement: Building a Theoretical Model.
Elmore, Patricia B.; Vasu, Ellen S.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v72 n4 p457-67 Aug 1980
The effect of attitudes toward mathematics-related coursework, previous mathematics coursework, student sex, spatial ability, and masculinity-femininity of interest pattern on statistics achievement were studied in 188 graduate students. Sex-related differences were found in mathematics attitude, spatial visualization, and achievement in the statistics course. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Education, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables, School Attitudes, Sex Differences, Spatial Ability, Statistics, Student Characteristics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Attitudes toward Feminist Issues Scale (Elmore); Fennema Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales; Kit of Reference Tests for Cognitive Factors; Masculinity Femininity Variable; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory