Structural model of the effects of cognitive and affective factors on the achievement of Arabic-speaking pre-service teachers in introductory statistics

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Nasser, Fadia M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Achievement; Affective variable; Attitude toward mathematics; Cognitive variable; Mathematical aptitude; Mathematics anxiety; Statistics anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942699991     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2004.11910717     Document Type: Review

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