Performance in Statistics had been a

long concern for educators. At

Benguet State University, many of
the students had low grades,
became drop-outs and even failed
on the said subject. A big count of
students takes the subject twice and
even more than twice.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Earlier researches had identified cognitive
and demographic factors affecting
student performance in statistics subjects
including gender, prior knowledge,
mathematical ability, spatial ability, and
pedagogical approaches. However,
affective and attitudinal factors among
students should also be taken into
consideration by instructors teaching
statistics.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In recent years, attitude towards

statistics have received increasing
attention in statistics education.
Student attitudes toward statistics
are important because they may be
related to the learning process.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
However, there are few researches on
attitude towards statistics affecting
academic performance especially at
Benguet State University. Thus, this study
aims to examine the impact of attitude
towards statistics on the performance in
Statistics of students in Benguet State
University. It also aims to show the use of
principal component analysis in data
reduction which is used as a prior
statistical technique before conducting
further statistical analysis.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Attitude assessment can be used to provide
information to students and instructors. The result
of this study may benefit the students for they will
become aware on the effects of their attitude
towards statistics on their learning process and
performance in the said subject. Knowing the
effects, they may be able to adjust in order to be
successful. Furthermore, attitude information can
specifically be used to identify students who are
potentially at risk for failing the statistics subject.
Such identification may be the primary step in
assisting them to become successful. Understanding
student attitudes toward statistics can also assist in
creating an individualized intervention strategy to
help remove some of the anxiety for a specific
student.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1. What is the attitude towards statistics of the
students at Benguet State University?
2. What are the principal components of the attitude
towards statistics of the students at Benguet State
University?
3. Is there a significant difference in the attitude
towards statistics of the students in terms of their:
 Course?
 Year level?
 Age?
 Gender?
 Performance in Math?
4. What is the contribution of the students’ attitude
towards statistics to the performance in Statistics of
the students?
POPULATION AND LOCALE OF THE STUDY
This study will be conducted at
Benguet State University main
campus located at La Trinidad,
Benguet. The target population
would be all the students enrolled in
Statistics 11 on the 1st semester of
school year 2015-2016. Cluster
sampling will be utilized to select
the respondents of the study.
DATA GATHERING INSTRUMENT
A survey questionnaire will be administered
to the respondents. It will be a statistics
attitude survey adopted from Survey on
Attitude towards Statistics-36 by Schau et al.,
1995. and Schau, 2003, SATS-28 by Schau,
1999, and ATS by Wise, 1985. The constructed
survey questionnaire will be referred to
experts in the field to check its validity. To
establish the reliability of the research
instrument, the test will be administered to
several students who were not enrolled in the
class that is subjected to the study. Cronbach
reliability will be used to determine the
internal consistency of the instruments.
TREATMENT OF DATA
 The data to be gathered will be treated and
analyzed using SPSS software ( Statistical
Packages for the Social Sciences).
 Principal Component Analysis will be utilized to
group the items on attitude towards statistics
survey questionnaire.
 T-test and analysis of variance will be utilized to
determine if there are significant differences on
the attitude towards statistics of the respondents
with respect to their course, year level, age,
gender, and performance in Math.
 Multiple regression analysis will be employed to
determine the contribution of the respondent’s
attitude towards statistics to their performance
in Statistics.