TY - JOUR AU - Mahmud, Zamalia AU - Ismail, Nor Zatul-Iffa AU - Abu Kassim, Noor Lide AU - Zainol, Mohammad Said PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE EFFECTS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS STATISTICS, PERCEIVED ABILITY, LEARNING PRACTICES AND TEACHING PRACTICES ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN STATISTICS: A REVIEW JF - Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) JA - SHAJARAH VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - ARTICLES DO - 10.31436/shajarah.v0i0.756 UR - https://journals.iium.edu.my/shajarah/index.php/shaj/article/view/756 SP - 71-98 AB - <p>This paper reviews the literature related to the teaching and learning&nbsp;of statistics and highlights the following variables affecting students’&nbsp;performance in statistics: students’ attitudes towards statistics,&nbsp;students’ perceived ability in statistics, instructors’ teaching&nbsp;practices and students’ learning practices. These variables have been&nbsp;chosen as these variables come from the self (student and teacher)&nbsp;where if self is well directed, teaching and learning becomes less&nbsp;complex and understanding will easily be established. Seeking&nbsp;knowledge has been greatly emphasized in Islam. The teaching and&nbsp;learning of statistics is becoming an increasingly important issue in&nbsp;statistical education. One pressing issue is how to continuously&nbsp;improve the teaching and learning of statistics at the tertiary level.&nbsp;Given its importance for the development of statistical literacy,&nbsp;statistical education researchers have attempted to investigate&nbsp;factors that relate to students’ learning outcomes in statistics and&nbsp;these researches have shown that a number of factors are indeed&nbsp;associated with student performance in statistics. The Prophet&nbsp;Muhammad (S.A.W) said: “The seeking of knowledge is obligatory&nbsp;for every Muslim”.2 And the civilization of Muslims has been based&nbsp;on lslam's emphasis on teaching and learning.</p> ER -