Erika G Offerdahl, Jessie B Arneson, Nicholas Byrne
Lighten the Load: Scaffolding Visual Literacy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
CBE life sciences education
many barriers learning present teaching research methods developing within students nursing skills reading interpreting research reports vital profession contribute general aim achieving sound basis health care interventions paper overviews current move toward evidence based practice challenges present teaching research nursing students offers approach teaching quantitative research help students nursing understand key concepts form basis inferential statistics work argue traditional emphasis probability statistical significance needs redressed effect size power form basis teaching students concepts involved inferential statistics argue introducing students key concepts statistical decision making particular order effect size power lastly statistical significance lead better understanding type type ii errors purpose hypothesis testing detect treatment intervention effect power dependent upon size treatment effect thus must introduced effect size students argue must able understand concept effect size consider foundational concept help develop firmer grasp decision making processes involved hypothesis testing approach form logical approach teaching subject allow use real world examples form basis learning