Please Note: This page contains a list of published SATS articles from peer reviewed journals. Even though these articles were reviewed prior to publication, some of them contain errors and incorrect conclusions, including (but not limited to) incorrectly scoring the SATS and using inappropriate methods of analyzing pre and post data.
Adair, D., Jaeger, M., & Price, O. M. (2018). Promoting active learning when teaching introductory statistics and probability using a portfolio curriculum approach. International Journal of Higher Education, 7(2), 175-188.
Bechrakisa, T., Gialamasb, V. & Barkatsas, A. N. (2011). Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS): An investigation of its construct validity and its factor structure invariance by gender. International Journal of Theoretical Educational Practice,
1(1), 1–15.
Bond, M. E., Perkins, S. & Ramirez, C. (2012). Students’ perceptions of statistics: An exploration of attitudes, conceptualizations, and content knowledge of statistics.
Statistics Education Research Journal, 11(2), 6-25. Retrieved from
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ11(2)_Bond.pdf.
Bude, L., van de Wiel, M. W., Imbos, T., & Berger, M. P. F. (2012). The effect of guiding questions on students’ performance and attitude towards statistics. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 340–359.
Carillo, K. D. A., Galy, N., Guthrie, C., & Vanhems, A. (2018). How to turn managers into data-driven decision makers: Measuring attitudes towards business analytics. Business Process Management Model, 25(3), 553-578.
Carillo, K., Galy, N., Guthrie, C., & Vanhems, A. (2016). « J'aime pas les stats ! » – Mesure et analyse de l'attitude à l'égard du cours de statistique dans une école de management.
Statistique et Enseignement,
7(1), 3-31. Retrieved from
http://publications-sfds.math.cnrs.fr/index.php/StatEns/article/download/537/509.
Carlson, K. A. & Winquist, J. R. (2011). Evaluating an active learning approach to teaching introductory statistics: A classroom workbook approach.
Journal of Statistics Education, 19(1). Retrieved from
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10691898.2011.11889596.
Cashin, S. E. & Elmore, P. B. (2005). The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics scale: A construct validity study. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 65, 509-524.
Chaphalker, R., & Wu, K. (2015). Service-learning projects in college introductory statistics: Effects on student’s attitudes. In V. M. Jagla, A. Furco, and J. R. Strait (eds.) Service-learning pedagogy: How does it measure up?
pp. 109-126. Scottsdale, AZ: Information Age Publishing, Incorporated.
Chew, P. K. H. & Dillon, D. B. (2014). Statistics Anxiety Update: Refining the Construct and Recommendations for a New Research Agenda. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(2), 196-208.
Chiesi, F. & Primi, C. (2009). Assessing statistics attitudes among college students: Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics (SATS). Learning and Individual Differences, 19, 309-313.
Combs, J.P. & Onwuegbuzie, A.J. (2012). Relationships among Attitudes, Coping
Curran, E., Carlson, K., & Celotta, D. T. (2013). Changing attitudes and facilitating understanding in the undergraduate statistics classroom: A collaborative learning approach. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(2), 49 – 71.
da Silva, J. M. T., Oliveira, A. L., & Miguel, J. P. (2015). Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a measure of attitudes toward statistics. Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnóstico y Evaluación – e Avaliação Psicológica. RIDEP, 1(39), 102-112.
Dauphinee, T. L., Schau, C. & Stevens, J. J. (1997). Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics: Factor structure and factorial invariance for females and males. Structural Equation Modeling, 4, 129-141.
Dempster, M. & McCorry, N. K. (2009). The role of previous experience and attitudes toward statistics in statistics assessment outcomes among undergraduate psychology students.
Journal of Statistics Education, 17(2).
Retrieved from
www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v17n2/dempster.html.
Finney, S. J. & Schraw, G. (2003). Self-efficacy beliefs in college statistics courses. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 28, 161-186.
Griffith, J. D., Adams, L. T., Gu, L. L., Hart, C. L., Nichols-Whitehead, P. (2012). Students’ attitudes toward statistics across the disciplines: A mixed methods approach. Statistics Education Research Journal, 11(2), 45-56.
Gundlach, E., Richards, K.A.R., Nelson, D. & Levesque-Bristol, C. (2015). A Comparison of Student Attitudes, Statistical Reasoning, Performance, and Perceptions for Web-augmented Traditional, Fully Online, and Flipped Sections of a Statistical Literacy Class.
Journal of Statistics Education, 23(1). Retrieved from
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v23n1/gundlach.pdf.
Hannigan, A., Gill, O., & Leavy, A. M. (2013). An investigation of prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ conceptual knowledge of and attitudes towards statistics. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 16(6), 427–449.
Hannigan, A., Hegarty, A.C. & McGrath, D. (2014). Attitudes towards statistics of graduate entry medical students: the role of prior learning experiences.
BMC Medical Education, 14. Retrieved from
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/14/70.
Harpe, S. E., Phipps, L. B., Alowayesh, M. A. (2012). Effects of a learning-centered approach to assessment on students’ attitudes towards and knowledge of statistics. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 4, 247–255.
Hilton, S. C., Schau, C. & Olsen, J. A. (2004). Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics: Factor structure invariance by gender and by administration time. Structural Equation Modeling, 11, 92-109.
Hood, M, Creed. P. A. & Neumann, D. L. (2012). Using the expectancy value model of motivation to understand the relationship between student attitudes and achievement in statistics.
Statistics Education Research Journal, 11(2), 72-85. Retrieved from
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ11(2)_Hood.pdf.
Jala, L. L., & Reston, E. (2012). Graduate students’ conceptions of statistical inference.
Liceo Journal of Higher Education Research Education and Communication Section, 7(1), 83-94. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7828/ljher.v7i1.22 .
Jatnika, R. (2014). The effect of an SPSS course on students’ attitudes toward statistics and achievement in statistics. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 5(11), 818-821.
Kerby, A. T., & Wroughton, J. R. (2017). When Do Students’ Attitudes Change?
Kiekkas, P., Panagiotarou, A., Malja, A., Tahirai, D., Zykai, R., Bakalis, N., Stefanopoulos, N. (2013). Nursing students' attitudes toward statistics: Effect of a biostatistics course and association with examination performance. Nurse Education Today, 35,1283-1288.
Kolpashnikova, K., & Bartolic, S. (2019). Digital divide in quantitative methods: The effects of computer-assisted instruction and students’ attitudes on knowledge acquisition. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 35, 208-217.
Krishnan, S. & Idris, N. (2015). Investigating SATS-36 for a Matriculation Sample. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education 4(2). 84-88.
Lai, B. S., Livings, M. S., D’Amico, M. P., Hayat, M. J., & Williams, J. (2018). A growth mindset pilot intervention for a graduate-level biostatistics course.
Statistics Education Research Journal, 17(2), 104-109. Retrieved from
https://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ17(2)_Lai.pdf?1558986216.
Lesser, L. M., Pearl, D. K. & Weber III, J. J. (2016). Assessing Fun Items’ Effectiveness in Increasing Learning of College Introductory Statistics Students:
Results of a Randomized Experiment. Journal of Statistics Education, 24(2), 54-62. Retrieved from
http://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691898.2016.1190190.
Liau, A.K., Kiat, J.E. & Nie, Y. (2015). Investigating the Pedagogical Approaches Related to Changes in Attitudes Toward Statistics in a Quantitative Methods Course for Psychology Undergraduate Students. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 24(2), 319–327.
Mahmud, Z. & Zainol, M. S. (2008). Examining postgraduate students’ perceived competency in statistical data analysis and their attitudes toward statistics. International Journal of Education and Information Technologies, 1(2), 79–86.
Marquez, J.C. (2004). Una Revisisn de las Evidencias de Fiabilidad y Vadlidez de los Cuestionarios de Actitudes y Ansiedad Hacia la Estadmstica. Statistics Education Research Journal, 3(1), 5-28. Retrieved from
Mathew, L. & Aktan, N.M. (2014). Nursing student attitudes toward statistics. Journal of Nursing Education, 53(4). 233-237.
Melad, A. F. (2006). Comparative study of the attitudes towards statistics for business undergraduates. Scholars Journal of Physics, Mathematics and Statistics, 3(2), 73-76.
Milic, N. M, Masic, S., Milin-Lazovic J., Trajkovic, G., Bukumiric, Z., Savic, M., et al. (2016). The Importance of Medical Students' Attitudes Regarding Cognitive Competence for Teaching Applied Statistics: Multi-Site Study and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 11(10) . Retrieved from
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164439.
Mills, J. A. (2004). Students’ attitudes toward Statistics: Implications for the future. College Student Journal, 38, 349-361.
Nasser, F. M. (2004). Structural model of the effects of cognitive and affective factors on the achievement of Arabic-speaking pre-service teachers in introductory statistics.
Journal of Statistics Education, 12(1), 1-24. Retrieved from
www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n1/nasser.html.
Ncube, B., & Moroke, N. D. (2015). Students’ perceptions and attitudes towards statistics in South African University: an exploratory factor analysis approach. Journal of Governance and Regulation, 4(3), 231-240.
Nimehchisalem, V., Nazemi Ashani, Z., & Jahedi, M. (2018). Attitudes toward learning statistics: The case of applied linguistics postgraduate students. Enero, 7(12), 6-17.
Nolan, M. M., Beran, T. & Hecker, K. G. (2012). Surveys assessing students’ attitudes toward statistics: A systematic review of validity and reliability.
Statistics Education Research Journal, 11(2), 103-123. Retrieved from
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ11(2)_Nolan.pdf.
Oguan, F. E. Jr., Halili, L. M., & Dublin, A. C. (2013). Exploring student’s attitudes and performance toward statistics across the discipline: Does attitude affect performance? Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary, 1(10), 673-687.
Persson, I., Kraus, K., Hansson, L., & Wallentin, F. Y. (2019). Confirming the structure of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36) by Swedish students. Statistics Education Research Journal, 18(1), 83-93.
Phukan, N., Bhowal, M. K., & Kashyap, M. P. (2018). Factors related to students performance in statistics course: A case study. Arybhatta Journal of Mathematics & Informatics, 10(2), 391-396.
Ratanaolarn, T. (2016). The Development of a Structural Equation Model of
Graduate Students’ Statistics Achievement. International Journal of Behavioral Science, 11(2), 153-168.
Reisinger Walker, E., & Brakke, K. E. (2017). Undergraduate psychology students’ efficacy and attitudes across introductory and advanced statistics courses. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 3(2), 132–140. Retrived from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/stl0000088.
Rodríguez, A. P., Martínez, R. S., Gómez, G. S., Piera, O. R., Martínez, M. G., & Velázquez, M. C. (2015). Attitudes towards the subject of statistics in students of the Medical Science Faculty "General Calixto García". Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas, 14(6), 872-883.
Rodriguez-Santero, J., & Gil-Flores, J. (2019). Actitudes hacia la estadistica en estudiantes de Ciencias de la Educacion: Propiedades psicometicas de la version espanola del Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36). RELIEVE, 25(1), 1-17.
Ruggeri, K., Dempster, M., Hanna, D. & Cleary, C. (2008). Experiences and expectations: The real reason nobody likes stats. Psychology Teaching Review, 14(2), 75-83.
Ruggeri, K., Diaz, C., Kelly, K., Papousek, I., Dempster, M, & Hanna, D. (2008). International issues in education. Psychology Teaching Review, 14(2), 65-74.
Saidi, S. S., & Siew, N. M. (2019). Assessing student’s understanding of the measures of central tendency and attitude towards Statistics in rural secondary schools. International electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 14(1), 73-86.
Schau, C. (2000). Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics. In J. Maltby, C. A. Lewis, & A. Hill (Eds.), Commissioned Reviews on 250 Psychological Tests
(pp. 898-901). Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press.
Schau, C., Stevens, J., Dauphinee, T. L. & Del Vecchio, A. (1995). The development and validation of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 55, 868-875.
Schou, S. B. (2007). A study of student attitudes and performance in an online introductory business statistics class. Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 6, 71-78. Retrieved from
http://ejite.isu.edu/Volume6/Schou.pdf.
Schutz, P.A., Drogosz, L. M., White, V. E. & Distefano, C. (1998). Prior knowledge, attitude, and strategy use in an introduction to statistics course. Learning and Individual Differences, 10, 291-308.
Slootmaeckers, K., Kerremans, B. & Adriaensen, J. (2014). Too Afraid to Learn: Attitudes towards Statistics as a Barrier to Learning Statistics and to Acquiring Quantitative Skills. Politics, 34(2), 191–200.
Spence, D. J., Bailey, B., & Sharp, J. L. (2017). The impact of student-directed projects in introductory statistics. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(1), 240-261.
Stanisavljevic, D., Trajkovic, G., Marinkovic, J., Bukumiric, Z., Cirkovic, A. & Milic, N. (2014). Assessing Attitudes towards Statistics among Medical Students: Psychometric Properties of the Serbian Version of the Survey of Attitudes Towards Statistics (SATS).
PLoS ONE, 9(11). Retrieved from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236124/pdf/pone.0112567.pdf.
Tempelaar, D. T., Gijselaers, W. J., Schim van der Loeff, S. & Nijhuis, J. F. H. (2007). A structural equation model analyzing the relationship of student achievement motivations and personality factors in a range of academic subject-matter areas. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 32(1), 105-131.
Tempelaar, D. T. & Nijhuis. J. F. H. (2007). Commonalities in attitudes and beliefs toward different academic subjects. In M. K. McCuddy, H. van den Bosch, J. W. B. Martz, A. V. Matveev, & K. O. Morse (Eds.), Educational Innovation in Economics and Business X: The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World
(pp. 225-250). Berlin: Springer.
Tempelaar, D. T., Schim van der Loeff, S. & Gijselaers, W. H. (2007). A structural equation model analyzing the relationship of students' attitudes toward statistics, prior reasoning abilities, and course performance.
Statistics Education Research Journal, 6(2), 78-102. Retrieved from
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ6(2)_Tempelaar.pdf.
Van Appel, V., & Durandt, R. (2018). Dissimilarities in attitudes between students in service and mainstream courses towards statistics: An analysis conducted in a developing country. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education,14(8)
(online).
van Es, C., & Weaver, M. M. (2018). Race, Sex, and their Influences on Introductory Statistics Education. Journal of Statistics Education, 26(1), 48-54.
VanHoof, S., Kuppens, S., Castro Sotos, A. E., Verschaffel, L. & Onghena, P. (2011). Measuring statistics attitudes: Structure of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36).
Statistics Education Research Journal, 10(1), 35-51. Retrieved from
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ10(1)_Vanhoof.pdf.
Wisecup, A. K. (2017). Take it or leave it: Students’ attitudes about research methods. Teaching Sociology, 45(1), 73–79. DOI: 10.1177/0092055X16658087.
Zhang, Y., Shang, L., Wang, R., Zhao, Q., Li, C., Xu, Y. & Su, H. (2012). Attitudes toward statistics in medical postgraduates: measuring, evaluating and monitoring.
BMC Medical Education, 12. Retrieved from
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-12-117.pdf.
Zimprich, D. (2012). Attitudes toward statistics among Swiss psychology students. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 71(3), 149–155.