Statistical Software Output in the Classroom: A Comparison of R and SPSS

The current study examines whether R or SPSS output induces greater initial anxiety in students and whether anxiety toward one or both changes after being taught one type of software output throughout the course. The authors each taught an introductory statistics course, with the first course ( n = 43) teaching R output exclusively and the second course ( n = 39) teaching SPSS output exclusively. Students in both courses were given surveys...