The Development and Validation of the Students' Self-efficacy for Statistical Literacy Scale

Colin Carmichael; Ian Hay

The Development and Validation of the Students' Self-efficacy for Statistical Literacy Scale

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Abstract

Statistical literacy is a comparatively new concept in mathematics and while there is some consensusabout how it is defined, there has been limited research on how the concept is measured within aschool context. This paper, reports on the development and validation of an instrument to measuremiddle school students' self-efficacy for statistical literacy. The items were developed from therelevant research literature and then tested on a sample of 366 students. A Rasch measurementmethodology was used to create the measure and to provide evidence for its construct validity. Theevidence reported in this paper indicates that the proposed instrument has suitable reliability andvalidity properties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MERGA 32
Subtitle of host publication	Crossing divides
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Pages	97-104
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781920846206
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	Annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia - Palmerston North, NZ, New Zealand Duration: 05 Jul 2009 → 09 Jul 2009

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Conference	Annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Country	New Zealand
Period	05/07/09 → 09/07/09

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