HDFS 200Quantitative Skills for Human Services

3 credits · Human Development and Family Studies · Penn State

This course introduces students to the quantitative methods used in human service careers emphasizing the implementation and interpretation of quantitative procedures in human service program settings. Students will obtain an understanding of programming basic Microsoft Excel calculations used to manage and analyze data; budgeting required in human service settings; interpreting descriptive and foundational inferential statistics; using quantitative statistics for program evaluations, producing charts and graphs for presenting information to community shareholders and funding agencies, and using output from statistical software to guide conclusions about human service program effectiveness.