اتجاهات طلبة الماجستير في كلية الأميرة عالية الجامعية جامعة البلقاء التطبيقية نحو الإحصاء و علاقتها ببعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

This study aimed at investigating the attitudes of master students at Princess Alia University College towards statistics and their relationship with variables of sex, age and achievement in statistics.

To achieve the objectives of this study, the attitudes towards statistics scale that developed by Sumaddi, was used.

After esta -lishing its validity and reliability.

The scale is consisting of (29) items distributed into five factors: Performance, future need, enjoyment, instructor's impact and perceived importance.

The sample was (38) students (29 males, 9 females) of master stage.

The result of the study showed that the attitudes of master students towards statistics were generally positive but intermediate (3.35).

Results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences in the attitudes of students towards st -tistics on the whole scale, and on factors of performance, enjoyment and perceived importance due to achievement in statistics, whereas sex and age didn't create any significant differences.

The study recommended some suggestions according to the findings of this study to use in teaching statistics.