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A Survey of Mongolian Secondary School Student's Attitude Toward Statistical Topic

몽골 중등학생의 통계 주제에 대한 태도조사

  • Received : 2022.02.04
  • Accepted : 2022.03.11
  • Published : 2022.03.30
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Abstract

The goal of this study was to analyze students' views about statistical themes in Mongolian secondary schools in Ulaanbaatar. To this end, 129 9th grade students were stratified random sampling at two secondary schools in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and a survey was conducted on them. The attitude survey focused on six factors contributing to the attitude: affective, cognitive competency, value, difficulty, interest, and student effort. The results show that students believed their statistical knowledge and skills have increased compared to the beginning of the courses. Furthermore, the survey revealed that they perceived statistics as neither an easy nor a difficult subject. Students' interest in statistics was neutral in general. These results suggest a need to develop effective and innovative statistical teaching and learning methods that can attract attention to statistical topics.

본 연구는 몽골 울란바토르에 소재한 중등학교에서 통계 주제에 대한 학생들의 태도를 분석하기 위해 수행되었다. 이를 위해 몽골 울란바토르에 있는 두 개의 중등학교에서 9학년 학생 129명을 층화표집한 후 이들을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 이 통계에 대한 태도 조사(SATS)는 태도에 기여하는 6가지 요인인 정서적 요인, 인지능력, 가치, 어려움, 흥미, 학생의 노력을 중심으로 이루어졌다. 그 결과 학생들은 자신의 통계 지식과 통계 기술이 학습 시작에 비해 다소 증가하였다고 믿는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 통계 주제에 대해서는 쉽지도 그렇다고 어렵지도 않다는 반응을 보였다. 그럼에도 통계에 대한 관심은 중립적이었다. 이러한 연구결과는 통계 주제에 대해 관심을 끌 수 있는 효과적이고 혁신적인 통계 교수·학습 방법 개발이 요구된다는 것을 시사하고 있다.

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