ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD STATISTICS: A MULTI-CASE STUDY

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 110 - 125, 20.12.2019

Kadir Sarıkaya , Esma Emmioğlu Sarıkaya

https://doi.org/10.29131/uiibd.641525

Abstract

This study investigated the attitudes toward
statistics of the electrical & electronics engineering and geomatic
engineering students who were enrolled in a Turkish university. Survey of
Attitudes toward Statistics-36 (SATS) was used to collect data. The
participants of the study were 62 Engineering students (38 male and 24 female).
They were sophomore students enrolled in either electrical & electronics
engineering (n=28) or geomatic engineering (n=34) departments and had not taken
a university level statistics course before. Both electrical & electronics
engineering students and geomatic engineering students generally had positive
attitudes toward statistics; however, geomatic students tended to have more
neutral attitudes at the end of the semester.

Keywords

Higher Education, Engineering Education, Statistics Education, Attitudes Toward Statistics

MÜHENDİSLİK ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN İSTATİSTİĞE KARŞI TUTUMLARI: ÇOKLU DURUM ÇALIŞMASI

Abstract

Bu çalışma Türkiye’de bir üniversitede
elektrik-elektronik ve harita mühendisliği alanlarında eğitim alan
öğrencilerinin istatistiğe karşı tutumunu araştırmaktadır. Veri toplamak için
İstatistiğe Yönelik Tutum Anketi-36 (İYTA-36) kullanılmıştır. Çalışma, 62
mühendislik öğrencisi (38 Erkek ve 24 Kadın) ile yapılmıştır. Öğrenciler,
elektrik-elektronik veya harita mühendisliği bölümü ikinci sınıfında kayıtlı
olup daha önce üniversite seviyesinde istatistik dersi almamıştır. Hem
elektrik-elektronik hem de harita mühendisliği öğrencilerinin genellikle
istatistiğe karşı olumlu tutumları bulunmakla birlikte, dönem sonunda harita
mühendisliği öğrencilerinin elektrik elektronik mühendisliği öğrencilerine göre
göre daha fazla nötr olma eğilimi gösterdiği tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Yüksek Eğitim, Mühendislik eğitimi, İstatistik Eğitimi, İstatistiğe Karşı Tutum

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