Gender Differences in Statistical Anxiety Dennis Pearl & Hyen Oh (Penn State University), Larry Lesser (University of Texas, El Paso) & John Weber (Perimeter.

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Gender Differences in Statistical Anxiety Dennis Pearl & Hyen Oh (Penn State University), Larry Lesser (University of Texas, El Paso) & John Weber (Perimeter College at Georgia State University)

Context 970 students in concepts course at Ohio State Spring gave consent and took final exam 67% female; 33% male 77% White (not Hispanic), 8% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 2% Other & 5% Not Disclosed. 86% in majors with no calculus requirement Course grades based on homework, lab reports, participation in problem solving sessions or online reviews, activities in lecture, quiz, two midterms & final Pre- and Post-course (before final) measurements using Statistical Thinking And Reasoning Test (START) Student Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS) Statistics Anxiety Measure (SAM)

Statistics Anxiety Subscales Anxiety about the practice of statistics Negative attitudes toward the statistics Class Fearful Behaviors related to statistics Negative attitudes toward Math Anxiety about expected Performance in class Student Attitudes Subscales Affect – feelings concerning statistics Cognitive Competence – ability to learn statistics Value – usefulness, relevance, and worth of statistics Difficulty – attitudes about difficulty of statistics Interest – student’s interest in statistics Effort – amount of work student expends to learn statistics

Attitudes & Anxiety by Gender SubscaleFemalesMalesGender Difference CIs: Pre & Post SATS - Affect3.9 pre, 4.1 post4.4 pre, 4.4 post(-.6,-.3) & (-.5,-.1) SATS - Cognitive4.6 pre, 4.9 post4.9 pre, 5.0 post(-.4,-.1) & (-.3,.1) SATS - Value4.8 pre, 4.5 post4.9 pre, 4.7 post(-.1,.0) & (-.4,.0) SATS - Difficulty3.7 pre, 4.0 post3.8 pre, 4.1 post(-.1,.0) & (-.3,.0) SATS - Interest4.2 pre, 3.5 post4.6 pre, 4.0 post(-.6,-.3) & (-.7,-.2) SATS - Effort6.5 pre, 5.8 post6.2 pre, 5.4 post(.2,.4) & (.2,.6) SAM - Anxiety7.5 pre, 6.8 post6.8 pre, 6.9 post(.4,1.1) & (-.6,.4) SAM - Class6.6 pre, 6.5 post6.1 pre, 6.2 post(.3,.9) & (-.0,.8) SAM - Fearful12.7 pre, 13.4 post12.0 pre, 12.5 post(.3,1.0) & (.4,1.4) SAM - Math14.2 pre, 13.4 post13.5 pre, 13.1 post(-.0,1.4) & (-.6,1.2) SAM - Performance9.5 pre, 9.5 post8.9 pre, 9.1 post(.3,.9) & (-.1,.9) SAM - Total50.5 pre, 49.8 post47.1 pre, 47.9 post(1.8,4.8) & (-.3,3.9)

Importance of Anxiety as a Predictor of Course Performance Total Anxiety Prior to Final % Score on Final Exam r ≈- 0.5

Overall Gender Differences in Student Effort Rate of full participation in activities not graded for content: Females: 67% Males: 56% 95% CI for Difference (4.7% to 17.9%) All Non-exam assessments (% score): Females: mean = 90.9, median = 95.2 Males: mean = 83.8, median = 90 95% CI for Difference in means (5.0 to 9.2)

Fixing Effort & Performance, Women report more Anxiety Total Anxiety Prior to Final % Score on Midterms r ≈ Full participators only = F = M

Fixing Effort & Anxiety, Women Perform Better % Score on Exams Total Anxiety Before Course r ≈ Full participators only = F = M

But Little Difference in Thinking & Reasoning FemalesMalesGender Difference CI START PreAvg = 3.4, SD = 1.7 n = 387 Avg = 3.7, SD = 1.8 n = 161 (-0.66, -0.03) START PostAvg = 4.8, SD = 2.3 n = 339 Avg = 4.9, SD = 2.3 n = 134 (-0.62, 0.32) START IncreaseAvg = 1.3, SD = 2.7 n = 314 Avg = 1.2, SD = 2.7 n = 125 (-0.46, 0.66) *Full participators only

Some Issues & Limitations SAM is a self-report instrument, so it is unclear if it might be biased with respect to gender comparisons. Perhaps, on average, women over-report anxieties and/or men under- report them. We did not have a large enough sample to investigate possible differences in these findings by race & ethnicity. SATS attitude subscales are generally more stable than the SAM subscales but are associated (especially Affect & Cognitive Competence). Course exams were tied to both literacy as well as thinking and reasoning based learning objectives. A future study could examine how anxiety and possible interventions to decrease anxiety might be modulated by learning objective type and gender.