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Using Microsoft Excel® to Teach Statistics in a Graduate Advanced Practice Nursing Program
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Using Microsoft Excel® to Teach Statistics in a Graduate Advanced Practice Nursing Program

Rose DiMaria-Ghalili and C Ostrow
The Journal of nursing education, v 48(2), pp 106-110
01 Feb 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20090201-03
PMID: 19260404
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Abstract

Core competencies Data analysis Information systems Internet resources Learning Nursing education Nursing schools Software packages Students Teaching methods
This article describes the authors' experiences during 3 years of using Microsoft Excel® to teach graduate-level statistics, as part of the research core required by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for all professional graduate nursing programs. The advantages to using this program instead of specialized statistical programs are ease of accessibility, increased transferability of skills, and reduced cost for students. The authors share their insight about realistic goals for teaching statistics to master's-level students and the resources that are available to faculty to help them to learn and use Excel in their courses. Several online sites that are excellent resources for both faculty and students are discussed. Detailed attention is given to an online course (Carnegie-Mellon University Open Learning Initiative, n.d.), which the authors have incorporated into their graduate-level research methods course. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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