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The study aims to identify and describe the difficulties education and sociology students experience in quantitative methods courses.

Difficulties Experienced by Education and Sociology Students in Quantitative Methods Courses

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Explores challenges in quantitative methods among education and sociology students, highlighting implications for teaching practices.

The study aims to identify and describe the difficulties education and sociology students experience in quantitative methods courses.
Students rated the difficulty of various topics in quantitative and qualitative methods.
Open-ended questions were used to explore the reasons behind the challenges faced by students.
Five main categories of difficulties were identified from student responses.
Statistics and quantitative methods were rated as significantly more difficult than qualitative methods.
Superficial teaching and negative attitudes were frequently cited as reasons for difficulties.
Students with fewer issues in quantitative subjects still reported relative difficulties due to negative attitudes.

Murtonen et al. (2003) studied this question.

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