Teaching Note--The Stats Requirement: Statistical Thinking as Social Work

Autor/in	Waring, Melody K.
Titel	Teaching Note--The Stats Requirement: Statistical Thinking as Social Work
Quelle	In: Journal of Social Work Education, 57 (2021) 1, S.205-210 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Waring, Melody K.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1043-7797
DOI	10.1080/10437797.2019.1662864
Schlagwörter	Social Work; Counselor Training; Masters Programs; Statistics; Ethics; Decision Making; Teaching Methods; Teacher Attitudes; Graduate Students; Thinking Skills; Part Time Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Arbeit; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Statistik; Ethik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerverhalten; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Denkfähigkeit; Part-time students; Teilzeitstudent
Abstract	The statistics requirement in social work curricula can be seen by students as a detour from the substance of social work. In this note, I describe my experience teaching part-time master's students that statistical thinking is social work: it is an application of the social work code of ethics and a critical tool in practice for making pragmatic decisions. I use two applied examples to demonstrate how statistical thinking can equip social workers to both identify inequity (through "rejecting the null") and avoid practices with insufficient evidence (through "failing to reject the null"). Based on my experience, I suggest some strategies for other people to use when teaching statistics to social workers. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01