Mayya, Shreemathi S and Devi, Elsa Sanatombi and Bairy, KL and Manu, Mohan K and Bibiana, Darling B and Vijay, P and Pais, Maria and Ayekpam, Sushila (2011) Nursing professionals attitude towards biostatistics and its implications to teaching. International Journal of Nursing Education, 3 (2). pp. 26-28.

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Abstract

Attitudes towards statistics are important because they may influence the learning process. In particular, students’ attitude and beliefs about statistics can affect the extent to which students will develop useful statistical thinking skills,whether they will apply what they have learned outside of the classroom,and whether or not students will choose to enroll in further statistics courses.Attitudes toward statistics scale (Wise, 1985) was used collect data on attitude towards statistics of students and teachers of nursing profession. Scale scores were compared between age groups, between students and teachers, and between those who had statistics as part of their curriculum and those did not have. Findings of the comparison and implications for teaching were discussed

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