title: Reducing statistics anxiety and enhancing statistics learning achievement: effectiveness of a one-minute strategy.
abstract: Statistical knowledge is widely used in academia; however, statistics teachers struggle with the issue of how to reduce students' statistics anxiety and enhance students' statistics learning. This study assesses the effectiveness of a "one-minute paper strategy" in reducing students' statistics-related anxiety and in improving students' statistics-related achievement. Participants were 77 undergraduates from two classes enrolled in applied statistics courses. An experiment was implemented according to a pretest/posttest comparison group design. The quasi-experimental design showed that the one-minute paper strategy significantly reduced students' statistics anxiety and improved students' statistics learning achievement. The strategy was a better instructional tool than the textbook exercise for reducing students' statistics anxiety and improving students' statistics achievement.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Accounting National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chei-Chang
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chiou
authors.forename: Yu-Min
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Li-Tze
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000193:education*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult