Assessment of attitudes toward math with the Attitude Toward Mathematics Inventory – Short Form

What is it about?

Math attitude refers to emotional responses, beliefs, and behaviors towards mathematics. Several studies measured the relation with math learning and related variables, but very few with statistics learning. To better investigate this relation has become increasingly relevant to have a measure that ensuring multidimensionality and shortness. This work shows factor structure of the ATMI - Short Form when administered to Italian college students attending an introductory statistics course, its usability with individuals different in gender and age, and psychometric properties, considering other factors such as statistics achievement and math knowledge.

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Why is it important?

This work show that ATMI - SF is good instrument to assess math attitude among college students who attend introductory statistics courses and, due to its brevity, can be use in large research aimed to measure several variables.