Using Course Management Systems to Help Reduce Graduate Students’ Statistics Anxiety (II)

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Code/計畫編號

NSC100-2511-S019-002-MY2

Translated Name/計畫中文名

使用課程管理系統降低研究生的統計焦慮 (II)

Project Coordinator/計畫主持人

Tsung-Yuan Hsiao

Funding Organization/主管機關

National Science and Technology Council

Department/Unit

Institute of Applied English

Website

https://www.grb.gov.tw/search/planDetail?id=2383511

Year

2012

Start date/計畫起

01-08-2012

Expected Completion/計畫迄

31-07-2013

Bugetid/研究經費

747千元

ResearchField/研究領域

科學教育
統計學
資訊科學--軟體

本專案研究探討使用課程管理系統對降低應用英語研究生的統計焦慮之成效。統計焦慮一般定義為修習統計課或收集、處理、解釋統計分析資料時對焦慮的感覺。學習統計學是應用英語研究生的一大挑戰，有學者更認為學習統計學有如學習外語。雖然學習焦慮已是外語研究的熱門話題，但外語領域從未有學者探討如何降低統計焦慮。本專案研究的成果將有助了解如何面對、處理統計焦慮，並提供研究所課程以及對量化研究有興趣的外語研究生、學者具體建議。為達成上述目的，本研究的樣本將包含應用英語所或相關研究所的研究生。這些研究生在大學時大多主修人文學或社會科學。本研究在開始前以及結束後，將請學生填答Cruise 和Wilkins 的統計焦慮量表Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (1980)以及相關的背景資料。在本研究所進行的統計課程中，除了教師的課堂講解外，也充分使用Moodle 課程管理系統，提供學生課程內容、討論區、作業繳交、建立學習檔案、查閱成績等功能。本研究的各項假設將於進行研究前事先擬妥，藉以提高統計分析的檢驗力。可能碰到的困難包含樣本、第一項研究假設的結果、以及Linux 作業系統等也都將有因應對策。 The proposed study will be conducted to investigate the effects of using a course management system on reducing statistics anxiety of graduate students learning English as a foreign language. Statistics anxiety is defined as “feelings of anxiety encountered when taking a statistics course or doing statistical analyses, that is, gathering, processing, and interpreting data” (Cruise, cash, & Bolton, 1985, p. 92). Statistics learning poses a challenge to graduate students of applied English programs because scholars (e.g., Brown, 1991; Reid, 1994) in the field of second or foreign language (L2) learning often view learning statistics as learning a foreign language. Although L2 anxiety has been much researched, no L2 studies have been devoted to the reduction of statistics anxiety. The proposed study, when completed and published, will contribute to our understanding of the treatment of statistics anxiety. This understanding will offer implications for L2 graduate curriculum, graduate students, and scholars interested in quantitative research. The proposed study will recruit graduate students from several programs of applied English in Taiwan. Most of the participants will have an undergraduate major in social sciences or humanities. At the beginning and end of the experiment, they will be invited to reply to a translated version of the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (Cruise & Wilkins, 1980) represented by six dimensions of statistics anxiety: Worth of Statistics, Interpretation Anxiety, Test and Class Anxiety, Computation Self-Concept, Fear of Asking for Help, and Fear of Statistics Teachers. In this experiment, the statistics course will rely on both classroom lectures and the Moodle course management system for teaching statistics commonly used or encountered in L2 research. “A priori” comparisons will be planned before the proposed experimental study is conducted in order not to reduce the power of the statistical analyses involved in this study. Possible difficulties in executing this study may include the sample size, unexpected results of Hypothesis 1, and the Linux operating system, but careful plan should help reduce or remove the potential difficulties that may arise.

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Using Course Management Systems to Help Reduce Graduate Students’ Statistics Anxiety (II)

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