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Kuramsal Eğitimbilim Dergisi, vol.12, no.4, pp.1209-1222, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
One of the most concrete reflections of mathematics in real life is the statistic domain and it is frequently
mentioned in the related literature that students have difficulty in statistics concepts. The development of statistical
concept knowledge is important for both statistical and scientific literacy. This study aimed to determine pre-service
mathematics teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs in statistics. The study is about the Palestinian context. Any data about Palestinian education is valuable as there is so little research in the literature about the educational research done
about the Palestinian educational system. The present study was conducted with a total number of 100 pre-service
mathematics teachers who were in their last academic year in the mathematics department of two Palestinian
universities. Data was collected by the Statistics Self- Efficacy Belief Instrument. Descriptive statistics was used in
data analysis. Data analysis showed that the participants had low to moderate level of self-efficacy beliefs in
statistics. The difficulties faced by the pre-service mathematics teachers with low self-efficacy beliefs in the teaching
of statistics concepts are discussed and the suggestion of remedial solutions for teaching content and teaching
environment is shared