Underlying Reasons for Different Learning Approaches in Statistics in an Australian University

Learning approaches of students has been investigated by many researchers since Marton and Saljo wrote their papers on learning approaches in 1976. However, in many of these studies, the cohorts of students were studying towards a degree which was closely related to the unit of learning approaches study (i.e. accounting for Bachelor of Accounting). In this research, we are investigating learning approaches of students who are studying towards a degree other than statistics but studying statistics as a required unit of their degree. We found some statistically significant relationships between students ’ demographics and their learning approaches in statistics in Australia