Misconceptions of English Students on Education Statistic

Mutia

2018

Abstract

This study aims to identify the misconceptions of English students in the Education Statistics course which consists of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Research subjects are students of English semester IV class B State Islamic Institute of Curup Academic Year 2017/2018 selected by purposive sampling. Data collection techniques use written tests, interviews, and documentation. Test of data credibility in this research is using technique triangulation. The results showed that students’ misconception in the use of parameters and statistics so that further difficulty in determining the use of formulas for both single data and groups data and misconceptions in the determination of hypotheses and statistical tests are used in accordance with the research problems given to result in the wrong research conclusions. Result of the concept of descriptive statistics are still weak and the students also have misconception in inferential statistics, so it is important to understand the basic concepts in descriptive statistics in order to avoid a greater misconception in inferential statistics because the two are highly interrelated. Students who are less rigorous in the process can also be a source of misconception of students in solving statistical problems both descriptive and inferential.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mutia. (2018). Misconceptions of English Students on Education Statistic.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs, ISBN 978-989-758-407-7, pages 369-377. DOI: 10.5220/0008522103690377

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmis18,
author={Mutia},
title={Misconceptions of English Students on Education Statistic},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,},
year={2018},
pages={369-377},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008522103690377},
isbn={978-989-758-407-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,
TI - Misconceptions of English Students on Education Statistic
SN - 978-989-758-407-7
AU - Mutia.
PY - 2018
SP - 369
EP - 377
DO - 10.5220/0008522103690377