SIKAP PELAJAR TERHADAP MATA PELAJARAN STATISTIK DALAM KALANGAN PELAJAR POLITEKNIK: PERBANDINGAN DI ANTARA JANTINA DAN BIDANG PENGKHUSUSAN

Abstract

This study aims to identify students' attitude through statistical learning through comparison between gender and field of study taken by students in polytechnics. This study used purposive sampling which consists of 152 polytechnic students from the field of commerce i.e. marketing diploma, accounting, retail management and business. This study used Survey of Attitude towards Statistics (SATS) instrument which contained 36 positive and negative items which consisted of six dimensions of attitude towards statistics. The findings showed a slight difference in student attitude mean score based on gender for female students (mean = 98.40) and male students (mean = 98.05) on statistical subjects. Based on the decision of the random sample t-test being run, the mean difference between male and female students is insignificant, t(150) = -0.263, ρ =0 .793). Comparative attitudes to statistics based on the field of study in polytechnics found that Diploma of Business Studies students showed the highest mean score (100.49), while students from the Diploma of Management of Retailing showed the lowest mean score (96.61). However, based on the decision rather than the one way variance analysis test being run, the difference shown in this mean score is insignificant, F(3, 148) = 2,546, ρ = 0.058. The comparison finds that there is no difference in interest in the statistics between the students' gender and the comparison for different fields of study. Therefore, lecturers can implement effective teaching and learning strategies and there is no need to conduct separate teaching and learning sessions by gender and there is no need to conduct separate teaching and learning sessions according to the field of study in polytechnics.