Attitude of students and mathematics teachers towards statistics at secondary level

Abstract

The present study "attitude of students and mathematics teachers towards statistics at secondary level" is carried out to find out the attitude of students and teachers towards statistics and to find out the comparative attitude of boys and girls students as well as students and teachers towards statistics at secondary level. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. 240 students and 25 teachers of Ilam district were selected as the sample of respondents by random sampling method. Two sets of opinionnaire were developed as the tools for data collecting. One set was used for the students and the another for the teachers. Both sets of opinionnaires were consisted of five level of statements classified into receiving, responding, valuing, organization and characterization according to the affective domain of David Krathwohl. The reliability of the opinionnaires was predicted by test-retest method. The attitude scores of students and teachers were divided into five categories strongly disagree, disagree, undecided, agree and strongly agree for each item arranged in the likert scale. The obtained data was analyzed using percentage, mean, t-test and 2-test at 0.05 level. The result of the study showed that the students and mathematics teachers have positive attitude towards statistics, the boy and girl students do not have significant difference in attitude towards statistics, the students and mathematics teachers have a significant difference in attitude towards statistics at secondary level.