Research and Practice: Orientations of Social Work Educators

Faver, Catherine A.; Fox, Mary Frank; Hunter, M.S.; Shannon, Coleen

doi:10.1093/sw/31.4.282

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“…Other studies, however (Dea, 1981;Faver et al, 1986;Kirk & Rosenblatt, 1981), suggest that poor statistical performance by students may be a function of faculty characteristics. Unfortunately, few studies have investigated the impact of instructor teaching style or pedagogy on student statistics anxiety.…”

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Statistics Anxiety Among Female African American Graduate-Level Social Work Students

Davis

2003

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

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Studies have found that statistics anxiety among female and minority graduate students is higher than that of their Caucasian counterparts. Both gender and culturally sensitive approaches to teaching statistics need to be developed to reduce student anxiety, especially in graduate programs that are dominated by women and minorities. The current study presents data on pre-and post-course statistics among female African American MSW students enrolled in a gender and culturally sensitive statistics course. A series of t-tests revealed that students had significantly lower levels of anxiety about statistics after the course. Implications for integrating gender and culturally sensitive approaches into the curriculum are discussed, and recommendations for future research are provided.

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Statistics Anxiety Among Female African American Graduate-Level Social Work Students

Davis

2003

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

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“…Despite these concerns about the place of research methods in the social work cumculum, very few articles describe programs which have successfully dealt with these problems (Poulin, 1989;Rosenblatt and Kirk, 1981). In addition to curricular concerns about research methods, a separate but related issue is that little is known about the attitudes of social work educators toward their own research-related activities (Faver, Fox, Hunter, and Shannon, 1986). …”

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Utilization of Group Projects in Teaching Social Work Research Methods

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1992

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

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“…Some educators explain this disparity by suggesting that social work students' poor statistical performance may be caused by faculty characteristics or pedagogy (Faver, Fox, Hunter, & Shannon, 1986;Hudson, 1978b;Pan & Tang, 2005;Unrah & Beck, 2004). Others argue that low levels of research success is related to high levels of anxiety (Royse & Rompf, 1992) that reflects the profession's deep-rooted climate of resistance to a science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) curriculum, within which research methods is embedded and changing this climate would require an institutional-level response (Adam, Zosky, & Unrau, 2004;Pan & Tang, 2005).…”

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The Peer Assisted Teaching Model for Undergraduate Research at a HBCU

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2017

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Despite wide application of research skills in higher education, undergraduate students reported research and computer anxiety, and low association between research and their professional goals. This study aims to assess whether peer-assisted mentoring programs would promote positive changes in undergraduates' attitudes toward research. Using a quasi-experimental one-group, pretest-posttest research design, the study assessed changes in attitudes by having doctoral candidates mentor undergraduate students during a summer statistics camp. Findings from paired-samples t-test indicated that students became familiar with the twelve statistical concepts upon completion, gained more positive affect related to statistics and an increase in their positive attitude about statistical skills, whereas they had lower scores prior to it. Notwithstanding the small sample size, these data indicate that including a peer assisted statistics camp in the academic curriculum would be beneficial for undergraduate students and increase their knowledge about research and statistics.

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Research and Practice: Orientations of Social Work Educators

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

Statistics Anxiety Among Female African American Graduate-Level Social Work Students

Statistics Anxiety Among Female African American Graduate-Level Social Work Students

Utilization of Group Projects in Teaching Social Work Research Methods

The Peer Assisted Teaching Model for Undergraduate Research at a HBCU

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