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                                                                                    <journal-title>EKOIST Journal of Econometrics and Statistics</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2651-396X</issn>
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                    <publisher-name>Istanbul University</publisher-name>
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                                    <trans-title>Examination of Factors Affecting Test Anxiety in Statistics Courses: A Research for University Students</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>İstatistik Dersi Sınav Kaygısı Üzerinde Etkili Olan Faktörlerin İncelenmesi: Üniversite Öğrencilerine Yönelik Bir Araştırma</article-title>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4075-8313</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Akman</surname>
                                    <given-names>Sema</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSAT FAKÜLTESİ, İKTİSAT (YL)</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20210726">
                    <day>07</day>
                    <month>26</month>
                    <year>2021</year>
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                                                    <issue>34</issue>
                                        <fpage>13</fpage>
                                        <lpage>36</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20210430">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>30</month>
                        <year>2021</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20210504">
                        <day>05</day>
                        <month>04</month>
                        <year>2021</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2005, EKOIST Journal of Econometrics and Statistics</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
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                            <p>As the interest and demand for statistics increase daily, statistics courses have become a part of the curriculum of many faculties and colleges. Statistics is a branch of science that starts with the data collection process and performs many functions, such as organizing, summarizing, and analyzing data. In this context, statistics include calculations and models related to data analysis, which is directly related to mathematics. This relationship between statistical applications and mathematics is often used by statistical methods, or is considered by researchers whointerpret statistical results or elements of a table. Meanwhile, students enrolled in statistics courses at college or undergraduate levels are also anxious about these courses for similar reasons. Statistical anxiety is a type of anxiety that arises when dealing with statistics regardless of the method applied or the complexity of statistics. Anxiety creates a motivating and facilitating effect at the beginning of learning and turns into a factor that prevents learning at a later time. Therefore, it is important to keep the level of anxiety and statistical anxiety under control to fulfill the learning function properly. In addition to statistics anxiety, exam anxiety is also a type of anxiety that negatively affects academic achievement. Many studies have been conducted on which factors are effective on students’ statistical anxiety and exam anxiety. In this study, the relationship between students’ gender, age, attendance, their perception that statistics course is a more difficult course than other courses, and their exam anxiety levels were investigated. The study was carried out with the data collected by face-tofacequestionnaires with 350 students studying in the Econometrics Undergraduate Program. Consequently, it was found that there was no relationship between students’ gender and statistical exam anxiety. However, it was determined that the age factor affected the statistical exam anxiety since the exam anxiety of the students increased with the students’ age. In addition, it was determined that students’ perception of statistics lessons also increase exam anxiety.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>İstatistiğe duyulan ilgi ve ihtiyacın gün geçtikçe artması sonucunda, istatistik dersi pek çok fakülte ve yüksekokulun ders programlarında yer alır hale gelmiştir. Buna bağlı olarak çeşitli istatistik eğitimleri ve danışmanlık hizmetleri ile de araştırmacılara destek olunmaktadır. İstatistik, veri toplama verileri düzenleme, özetleme, analiz etme gibi pek çok işlevi yerine getiren bir bilim dalıdır. Bu bağlamda istatistik, matematik ile doğrudan bağlantılı hesaplamalar, modellemeler içerir. İstatistik uygulamalarının matematik ile olan bu ilişkisi, çoğu kez istatistik yöntemler kullanmak ya da istatistik sonuçlar ya da tabloları yorumlamak zorunda kalan araştırmacılar için bir kaygı unsuru oluşturmaktadır. Öte yandan, ön lisans ya da lisans düzeyinde istatistik dersi alan öğrenciler de benzer sebeplerle derse yönelik kaygı hissetmektedir. İstatistik kaygısı, uygulanan istatistik analiz yönteminden ya da istatistiğin karmaşıklığından bağımsız olarak, istatistikle ilgilenildiği zaman ortaya çıkan bir kaygı türüdür. Kaygı, başlangıçta öğrenmeyi motive edici, kolaylaştırıcı etki yaratmakta, ilerleyen seviyelerde ise öğrenmeyi engelleyici bir etken haline dönüşmektedir. O halde öğrenme işlevinin gereği gibi yerine getirilmesi için, kaygının ve dolayısıyla istatistik kaygı seviyesinin kontrol altında tutulabilmesi önem taşımaktadır. İstatistik kaygısı yanında sınav kaygısı da akademik başarıyı olumsuz etkileyen bir kaygı türüdür. Öğrencilerin, istatistik kaygısı ve sınav kaygısı üzerinde hangi faktörlerin etkili olduğuna ilişkin çok sayıda çalışma yapılmıştır. Bu çalışmada, öğrencilerin cinsiyet, yaş, derse devam durumu ve istatistik dersinin diğer derslere göre daha zor bir ders olduğuna yönelik algılarıyla sınav kaygı düzeyleri arasında ilişki bulunup bulunmadığı araştırılmıştır. Çalışma, Ekonometri Lisans Programında öğrenim görmekte olan 350 öğrenci ile gerçekleştirilen yüz yüze anket yöntemiyle toplanan veriler ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Logaritmik doğrusal model uygulaması sonucunda, öğrencilerin cinsiyetiyle istatistik sınav kaygısı arasında ilişki bulunmadığı, ancak yaş faktörünün istatistik sınav kaygısı üzerinde etkili olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Buna göre, yaş ilerledikçe öğrencilerin sınav kaygısı artmaktadır. Öte yandan, öğrencilerin istatistik dersinin zor bir ders olduğu yönündeki algısıyla istatistik dersi sınav kaygısı arasında da bir ilişki söz konusudur. Öğrencilerin istatistik dersinin zor ders olduğu inancı arttıkça sınav kaygısı da artmaktadır.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>İstatistik kaygısı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Sınav kaygısı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Logaritmik doğrusal modeller</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Statistical anxiety</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  exam anxiety</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  log-linear models</kwd>
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