The understanding of students towards statistics for research

Abstract

This study aims to determine the factors of causing students understanding towards statistics for research to be in the sufficient category. Data collection techniques used were tests and interviews. Based on the research, it was concluded that the causes of statistical understanding level of students were in the sufficient category: (1) Understanding based on their own wrong thoughts and logic; (2) Own thinking caused it does not remember the concept; (3) forgetting the statistical material which has been studied; (4) Don't know the formula; (5) Does not understand data analysis procedures; (6) the distance between statistics and thesis is far-off, so that what has been learned starts to be forgotten; (7) In statistical learning, the material used for research is not emphasized, only focused on giving the formula; (8) Do not understand the language of books that have been studied; (9) Don't want to ask people who are more understanding.