Attitudes toward statistics play an important role in a student’s statistics achievement and retention. In 2016, the Research on Statistics Attitudes workgroup began development of new instruments to measure attitudes towards statistics. This talk will discuss the resulting Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (SOMAS), including the theoretical framework for the surveys based on Expectancy-Value Theory as well as the item development, subject-matter-expert review, pilot data collection, and exploratory factor analysis results.
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