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Abstract
This exploratory investigation examines some of the generally held assumptions and stereotypes about the attitudes of undergraduate social work majors toward research and about their quantitative skills. A comparison of social work majors and social science majors in a social statistics course produced results that raise serious doubts about some of these assumptions and stereotypes. Our findings showed that social work majors were not deficient in their quantitative aptitudes, did not hold negative attitudes about research, and performed better than social science majors.
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Richard E. Basom
RICHARD E. BASOM, JR., is a research associate, DAVID A. IACONO-HARRIS is an associate professor of social work, and DONALD B. KRAYBILL is an associate professor of sociology, all in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. This paper originally was presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, March 10, 1981.
David A. Iacono-Harris
RICHARD E. BASOM, JR., is a research associate, DAVID A. IACONO-HARRIS is an associate professor of social work, and DONALD B. KRAYBILL is an associate professor of sociology, all in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. This paper originally was presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, March 10, 1981.
Donald B. Kraybill
RICHARD E. BASOM, JR., is a research associate, DAVID A. IACONO-HARRIS is an associate professor of social work, and DONALD B. KRAYBILL is an associate professor of sociology, all in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. This paper originally was presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, March 10, 1981.