The role of previous experience and attitudes toward statistics in statistics assessment outcomes among undergraduate psychology students

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Dempster, Martin ^a   McCorry, Noleen K ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect about statistics; Cognitive competence; Difficulty of statistics; Value of statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950795911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2009.11889515     Document Type: Article

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