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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Students' Perceptions of Statistics: An Exploration of Attitudes, Conceptualizations, and Content Knowledge of Statistics
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Bond, Marjorie E.; Perkins, Susan N.; Ramirez, Caroline – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2012
Although statistics education research has focused on students' learning and conceptual understanding of statistics, researchers have only recently begun investigating students' perceptions of statistics. The term perception describes the overlap between cognitive and non-cognitive factors. In this mixed-methods study, undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Definitions, Statistics
The Importance of Attitudes in Statistics Education
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Ramirez, Caroline; Schau, Candace; Emmioglu, Esma – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2012
People forget what they do not use. But attitudes "stick." Our article emphasizes the importance of students' attitudes toward statistics. We examine 15 surveys that purport to assess these attitudes and then describe the "Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics," a commonly used attitude survey. We present our conceptual model of Students'…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction