TEACHING STATISTICS WITHOUT SADISTICS

Social work students generally dread statistics courses, and social wo rk educators appear to share this apprehension. This article describes five steps in a developmental research project designed to take the s adistics out of statistics. First, statistics anxiety is examined and identified as an educational problem. Second, instructional objectives and procedures to achieve them are identified. Third, methods and too ls for evaluating the course are explored. Fourth and fifth, strategie s for and obstacles to making widespread use of this approach are cons idered.