Student Attitude Surveys: We have developed a Learning Attitudes Survey for statistics. Near the start and end of STAT 200, students are expected to complete this on-line attitude survey. The survey attempts to gauge how students perceive the relevance of the discipline, their enthusiasm for studying it and how they go about learning in Statistics. A robust method of analyzing the resulting data has been devised that uses a re-sampling method known as bootstrapping. The approach has been encoded in R (a freely available package for statistical computing), and a user guide has been created. Anyone wishing to implement our method on their own data should contact Dr. Bruce Dunham at b.dunham@stat.ubc.ca. A description of the method, and our findings from the analysis of our data, are being written up for future publication.
