How psychological factors effect on students’ performance in statistic. Psychological factors and students’ performance in statistics

      Аннотация: Unlike some students who are interested in math and statistics and read them with interest, some students do not enjoy studying these lessons and they regard it as a difficult lesson and consider it as an obstacle in fulfilling their curriculum. There is no doubt that math and statistic makes them anxious. Therefore, they couldn’t do well in these courses. So, we must understand what we can do to alleviate their problem. In recent years, psychologist and educators showed that some psychological factors play an important role to promote or decline mathematics and statistics performance. This book is interesting to read in that it provides an opportunity to explore how some psychological factors influence the performance of students in mathematics and statistics. The interesting finding revealed in this book has implications that affect the students’ statistics performance.

Ключевые слова: Mathematics Anxiety, Statistics, Mathematics Self-efficacy, Attitude toward Mathematics