Exploratory study of attitudes towards statistics in high school students

In recent times the importance of affective aspects in the teaching and learning of statistics has been well acknowledged. An exploratory study, which is part of a wider investigation in order to analyze the attitudes towards statistics with Mexican high school students from two different educational systems, is presented. To this goal, we have applied the Scale of Attitudes Toward Statistics EAEE to 277 students from CCH-UNAM, in that statistics is an elective. The students accept the importance and usefulness of statistics in their field of study and daily life; the female students are those who prefer to study this subject. The lack of previous statistical studies is being considered as an element that determines a favorable or unfavorable attitude.