Orban, Job Terpase,
Aduloju, M. O
and
Obinne, A D E
CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF STATISTICS
ANXIETY INSTRUMENT FOR STUDENT S OF TERTIARY
INSTITUTION IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA .
The study develops and validats Statistics Anxiety Instrument (SAI) for
measuring statistics anxiety of Benue State tertiary institution students. The
study is guided with four objectives which translated to four research
questions. Survey design is adopted in the choice of schools and the students
were selected using proportionate stratified and simple random sampling
techniques with the population of eight thousand, one hundred and eighty-two
students (8182). Eight hundred and eighteen (818) students are sampled
based on 10% of the population theory posited by Nwana. One hundred and
two (102) items generated with six domains are subjected to face & content
validity before the psychometric properties of the remaining items are
established. The second stage of the validation is carried out for the
confirmation of the construct validity using Confirmatory factor analyses of
MPLUS 7.4 and RMSEA NFI. The internal consistency of the instrument
yielded 0.84 and 34 items emerged from the generated 102 items with eight
factors against the six factors from the draft. Based on the analysis of the
psychometric properties of the instrument, the refined Statistics Anxiety
Instrument(RSAI) is recommended for use by Researchers, Psychologists,
Guidance Counselors and Measurement experts
Keywords: Construction, instrument, Construct Validity, Reliability and Statistics
Anxiety
Orban, Job Terpase, Aduloju, M. O and Obinne, A D E
CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF STATISTICS ANXIETY INSTRUMENT FOR STUDENT S OF TERTIARY INSTITUTION IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA .
The study develops and validats Statistics Anxiety Instrument (SAI) for measuring statistics anxiety of Benue State tertiary institution students. The study is guided with four objectives which translated to four research questions. Survey design is adopted in the choice of schools and the students were selected using proportionate stratified and simple random sampling techniques with the population of eight thousand, one hundred and eighty-two students (8182). Eight hundred and eighteen (818) students are sampled based on 10% of the population theory posited by Nwana. One hundred and two (102) items generated with six domains are subjected to face & content validity before the psychometric properties of the remaining items are established. The second stage of the validation is carried out for the confirmation of the construct validity using Confirmatory factor analyses of MPLUS 7.4 and RMSEA NFI. The internal consistency of the instrument yielded 0.84 and 34 items emerged from the generated 102 items with eight factors against the six factors from the draft. Based on the analysis of the psychometric properties of the instrument, the refined Statistics Anxiety Instrument(RSAI) is recommended for use by Researchers, Psychologists, Guidance Counselors and Measurement experts Keywords: Construction, instrument, Construct Validity, Reliability and Statistics Anxiety