出版社：International Association for Statistical Education
摘要：The present study focuses on motivational constructs and their effect on students¡¯
academic achievement within an existing statistics course. First-year Health Sciences
students completed a questionnaire that measures several motivational constructs:
dimensions of causal attributions, outcome expectancy, affect, and study behaviour,
all with respect to statistics. The results showed that when the cause of negative
events was perceived as uncontrollable, outcome expectancy was negative. When the
cause of negative events was perceived as stable, affect toward statistics was
negative. Furthermore, negative affect toward statistics and limited study behaviour
led to unsatisfactory achievements. Path analysis (Lisrel) largely confirmed the
causal relations in a model that was based on attributional and learned helplessness
theories. The consequences of these findings for statistics education are discussed.
关键词：Statistics education research; Motivation; Conceptual understanding;
Study behaviour
