Study to assess attitudes towards statistics of business school students: An application of the SATS-36 in India

Title

Study to assess attitudes towards statistics of business school students: An application of the SATS-36 in India

Creator

Sharma A.M.; Srivastav A.

Description

Students attitudes towards Statistics are pivotal to their learning process as positive attitudes lead to highly satisfactory course achievement and lead to positive outcomes outside class as well. In this paper we are exploring the perception of students of management apropos Statistics, familiarity with which is imperative in todays world of Analytics. The quantitative approach was used to compare attitudes of the students using the two versions of the SATS-36 instrument validated and copyrighted by Candace Schau. A Google form was used to collect responses and was sent to all the students who were enrolled in the Business Statistics course. 172 students responded for the pre-test study while 71 students responded for the post-test study. Data was analysed to see if gender, specialisation choices and previous math experiences accounted for differences in perceptions towards Statistics. It was found that students overall perception of statistics is positive and surprisingly they were more positive towards the beginning of the semester. These results are important as they can lead towards understanding of business students attitudes towards statistics and a way to refine the teaching learning process so that students are in a strong position to exploit the supply demand gap in the Analytics domain and deliver value to organisations. 2021 Eskisehir Osmangazi University. All rights reserved.

Source

International Journal of Instruction, Vol-14, No. 3, pp. 207-222.

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

Gate Association for Teaching and Education

Subject

Attitude; Business education; Curriculum; Factor analysis; Post-test; Pre-test; SATS-36; Statistics education

Coverage

Sharma A.M., Department of Professional Studies, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Srivastav A., Mumbai, India

Rights

All Open Access; Gold Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 1694609X

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.29333/iji.2021.14312a

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