Welcome to the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS) Website
Thanks for your interest in my SATS. There are two copyrighted versions of the SATS: the SATS-28 and the SATS-36.
I have had continuing medical issues so I can’t respond to requests In a timely fashion.
If you are not using the SATS for a commercial product, you have my permission to use it free for one year. At the end of your year, contact me again if you would like to continue to use my measure. I do require that you send/e-mail me a copy of anything you write that includes information about your use of the SATS. Also, when you use the SATS or write about it, you need to indicate that I hold the copyright.
You should use all the items that comprise each attitude component on the SATS (and I encourage you to use the other items too). Scores from the SATS attitude components using all the items have been carefully validated on postsecondary students with a wide variety of characteristics taking statistics in many institutions both within and outside of the US. That validation work does not apply to altered items, individual items or to incomplete components. Also, it is not appropriate to use a “total” attitude score.
I created the SATS in the early 1990s for students in the US. Some of the demographic items are outdated. You are welcome to change them and the academic background items to fit your circumstances. For example, you might want to change the “sex” question to:
I identify as: 1. Male 2. Female 3. Both 4. Other
Similarly, for the citizenship item, you might want to change “foreign student” to “international student”. If you are collecting data in a country other than the US, you might want to change “US citizen” to “insert your country citizen”.
You can find references and scoring information on my web site (unfortunately I am not up to date on the references). I have attached the pretest and posttest versions of the SATS.
I hope your work goes well.
Candace
Candace Schau, PhD
CS Consultants, LLC
1-505-301-1310