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Ruggeri, Kai; Diaz, Carmen; Kelley, Karl; Papousek, Ilona; Dempster, Martin; Hanna, Donncha – Psychology Teaching Review, 2008
Anxiety, negative attitudes, and attrition are all issues presented in the teaching of statistics to undergraduates in research-based degrees regardless of location. Previous works have looked at these obstacles, but none have consolidated a multilingual, multinational effort using a consistent method. Over 400 Spanish-, English-, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Negative Attitudes, Psychology
Druggeri, Kai; Dempster, Martin; Hanna, Donncha; Cleary, Carol – Psychology Teaching Review, 2008
Within undergraduate psychology courses, students often have significant levels of anxiety and negative attitudes toward the statistical element. This has been attributed to poor interaction with teachers, fears about mathematical abilities, and simply being unaware of that portion of the course or its relevance to psychology. To address this, 196…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Psychology, Curriculum