Teaching Note—The Stats Requirement: Statistical Thinking as Social Work.

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...

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Publicado en:Journal of Social Work Education Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 205 - 211
Autor principal: Waring, Melody K.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2021
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