Learning experience is important for the attitude of using statistical software

  • Authors:
  • Hsieh-Hua Yang;Jui-Chen Yu;Hung-Jen Yang;Wen-Hui Han;Yu-Jun Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Health Care Administration, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan;National Science And Technology Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Department of Industrial Technology Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan;Department of Nursing, Yuanpei University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan;Department of Health Care Administration, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • ACOS'07 Proceedings of the 6th Conference on WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of learning experience on attitude of using statistical software. Under a context of natural experimental setting, there are experimental and control groups. The experimental group is learning to use the statistical software in a course of software application. The control group is learning to apply the statistical software for analyzing data in a course of research method. The participants are 63 university students, 42 in experimental group and 21 in control group. The results show that learning experience has effect on attitude of using statistical software. It is concluded that learning experience is important for the attitude of statistical software usage.