Abstract
Principal components analyses were conducted on the combined items of the Statistics Attitude Survey (SAS; Roberts and Bilderback, 1980) and the Attitude Toward Statistics scale (ATS; Wise, 1985) for a sample of 307 students in sections of an introductory statistics course who had taken the scales at the beginning of the course, and for a second sample of 242 students who had taken the scales at the end of the same statistics course. Two oblique factors (factor intercorrelations = -.46 and -.43) representing attitudes toward the field of statistics and attitudes toward the course in statistics were obtained. Coefficients of congruence were .98 for each pair of corresponding factors from the beginning and end of course analyses.
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