CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH MEASURING ATTITUDES USING THE SATS FAMILY OF INSTRUMENTS

Q3 Social Sciences

Statistics Education Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI:10.52041/serj.v21i1.88

Douglas Whitaker, A. Unfried, Marjorie E. Bond

引用次数: 5

Abstract

The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS) is a widely used family of instruments for measuring attitude constructs in statistics education. Since the development of the SATS instruments, there has been an evolution in the understanding of validity in the field of educational measurement emphasizing validation as an on-going process. While a 2012 review of statistics education attitude instruments noted that the SATS family had the most validity evidence, two types of challenges to the use of these instruments have emerged: challenges to the interpretations of scale scores and challenges using the SATS instruments in populations other than undergraduate students enrolled in introductory statistics courses. A synthesis of the literature and empirical results are used to document these challenges.

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与使用sats系列仪器测量态度有关的挑战

统计态度调查(SATS)是一种广泛使用的测量统计教育态度建构的工具。自从SATS工具开发以来，教育测量领域对效度的理解发生了变化，强调效度是一个持续的过程。虽然2012年对统计教育态度工具的回顾指出，SATS家族拥有最多的有效性证据，但对这些工具的使用出现了两类挑战:对量表分数的解释的挑战，以及在统计学入门课程的本科生以外的人群中使用SATS工具的挑战。综合文献和实证结果用于记录这些挑战。

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Statistics Education Research Journal Social Sciences-Education

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期刊介绍： SERJ is a peer-reviewed electronic journal of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI). SERJ is published twice a year and is free. SERJ aims to advance research-based knowledge that can help to improve the teaching, learning, and understanding of statistics or probability at all educational levels and in both formal (classroom-based) and informal (out-of-classroom) contexts. Such research may examine, for example, cognitive, motivational, attitudinal, curricular, teaching-related, technology-related, organizational, or societal factors and processes that are related to the development and understanding of stochastic knowledge. In addition, research may focus on how people use or apply statistical and probabilistic information and ideas, broadly viewed. The Journal encourages the submission of quality papers related to the above goals, such as reports of original research (both quantitative and qualitative), integrative and critical reviews of research literature, analyses of research-based theoretical and methodological models, and other types of papers described in full in the Guidelines for Authors. All papers are reviewed internally by an Associate Editor or Editor, and are blind-reviewed by at least two external referees. Contributions in English are recommended. Contributions in French and Spanish will also be considered. A submitted paper must not have been published before or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.