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- Title
Reducing statistics anxiety and academic procrastination among Israeli students: A pilot program.
- Authors
Kadosh, Mazi; Hen, Meirav; Ferrari, Joseph R.
- Abstract
Many college students consider statistical courses as frightening and demanding, yielding high anxiety and low competence, and correlating with maladaptive academic behaviors and low achievement. With undergraduate students, the present pre‐post study compared a supportive online teaching program utilizing mandatory statistical exercises (n = 37) with a no intervention, optional exercise statistics class (n = 32). We evaluated whether our statistics teaching intervention decreased test anxiety and academic procrastination and increased academic self‐efficacy and academic achievements. Results indicated a decrease in academic procrastination and test anxiety at course end for intervention group and an increase in test anxiety for control group. At the end of the course intervention group reported higher academic self‐efficacy and achievements. Teaching statistics using mandatory supportive activities might contribute to more positive psychological outcomes (eg, higher academic self‐efficacy and lower academic procrastination) and higher academic achievements.
- Subjects
PROCRASTINATION; PILOT projects; ANXIETY; TEST anxiety; ACADEMIC achievement; ONLINE education
- Publication
Teaching Statistics, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 3, p167
- ISSN
0141-982X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/test.12356