Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics: a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST

Francesca Chiesi; Caterina Primi; Ayse Aysin Bilgin; Maria Virginia Lopez; Maria del Carmen Fabrizio

Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics: a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST

Francesca Chiesi, Caterina Primi, Ayse Aysin Bilgin, Maria Virginia Lopez, Maria del Carmen Fabrizio

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University students often encounter difficulties in statistics courses that hinder their progress in the attainment of their degree. In identifying variables that may constitute barriers faced by students, it is important to investigate the approach that students adopt in learning statistics. Focusing on issue of measurement, the present paper aimed to develop a brief version of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST), one of the well-known measures of a student's approach to learning. The final goal was to obtain a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST to investigate learning approaches in multinational research. Results indicated that the abbreviated Spanish, Italian and English versions of the ASSIST showed good psychometric properties and the three-factor structure of the original version (Deep, Surface and Strategic approaches) was confirmed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014)
Place of Publication	Voorburg, The Netherlands
Publisher	International Statistical Institute
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	International Conference on Teaching Statistics (9th : 2014) - Arizona, USA Duration: 13 Jul 2014 → 18 Jul 2014

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Conference	International Conference on Teaching Statistics (9th : 2014)
City	Arizona, USA
Period	13/07/14 → 18/07/14

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Similarities and differences of learning approaches of student in statistics and mathematics: a case study from Turkey
Mizrahi, E., Bilgin, A. A., Hacinliyan, I., Intepe, G. & Gozlu, S., 2018, Looking back, looking forward: proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018), Kyoto, Japan. Sorto, M. A., White, A. & Guyot, L. (eds.). Voorburg: International Statistical Institute, p. 1-4 4 p.
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Chiesi, F., Primi, C., Bilgin, A. A., Lopez, M. V., & Fabrizio, M. D. C. (2014). Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics: a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST. In Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014) (pp. 1-6). International Statistical Institute. http://iase-web.org

Chiesi, Francesca ; Primi, Caterina ; Bilgin, Ayse Aysin et al. / Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics : a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST. Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014). Voorburg, The Netherlands : International Statistical Institute, 2014. pp. 1-6

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Chiesi, F, Primi, C, Bilgin, AA, Lopez, MV & Fabrizio, MDC 2014, Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics: a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST. in Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014). International Statistical Institute, Voorburg, The Netherlands, pp. 1-6, International Conference on Teaching Statistics (9th : 2014), Arizona, USA, 13/07/14. <http://iase-web.org>

Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics: a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST. / Chiesi, Francesca; Primi, Caterina; Bilgin, Ayse Aysin et al.
Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute, 2014. p. 1-6.

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Chiesi F, Primi C, Bilgin AA, Lopez MV, Fabrizio MDC. Measuring university students’ approaches to learning statistics: a cross-cultural and multilingual version of the ASSIST. In Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. 2014. p. 1-6

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Similarities and differences of learning approaches of student in statistics and mathematics: a case study from Turkey

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