Teaching Inferential Statistics to Social Work Students: A Decision-making Flow Chart

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-147

  Calderwood, Kimberly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

problem based learning; research; social work curriculum; social work values; statistics; teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860705655     PISSN: 08841233     EISSN: 15407349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08841233.2012.670065     Document Type: Article

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