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<p>Microsoft Excel skills are imperative in today’s competitive market and the skill is highly demanded by businesses. The MOS Excel Expert Certification (MO-201) validates the competency that one should build to meet employers’ expectations. The paper addresses the statistical mean rank difference in four skill groups of the certification test. Results of the four groups of the test were compared, using the Kruskal-Wallis’s test. The null hypothesis of the equality of the means for different groups was rejected at the 5% level of significance. Because the null hypothesis was rejected, the Conover post hoc test was applied for multiple pairwise comparisons, to discern which of the sample pair combinations were significantly different. The paper examines some of the concepts of groups 2 and 3 questions where students struggled the most and rendered insights to overcome those hurdles.</p>
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Microsoft Excel skills are imperative in today’s competitive market and the skill is highly demanded by businesses. The MOS Excel Expert Certification (MO-201) validates the competency that one should build to meet employers’ expectations. The paper addresses the statistical mean rank difference in four skill groups of the certification test. Results of the four groups of the test were compared, using the Kruskal-Wallis’s test. The null hypothesis of the equality of the means for different groups was rejected at the 5% level of significance. Because the null hypothesis was rejected, the Conover post hoc test was applied for multiple pairwise comparisons, to discern which of the sample pair combinations were significantly different. The paper examines some of the concepts of groups 2 and 3 questions where students struggled the most and rendered insights to overcome those hurdles.

Microsoft excel expert certification MO-201: results, analysis and key tips to succeed

HOLISTICA – Journal of Business and Public Administration

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Microsoft Excel skills are imperative in today’s competitive market and the skill is highly demanded by businesses. The MOS Excel Expert Certification (MO-201)...

Microsoft excel expert certification MO-201: results, analysis and key tips to succeed

Online veröffentlicht: 12. Dez. 2022

Seitenbereich: 1 - 8

Eingereicht: 01. Aug. 2022

Akzeptiert: 01. Okt. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjbpa-2022-0011

Schlüsselwörter
MOS Excel Expert Test, Non-parametric tests, Advanced Excel functions

© 2022 Shahid I. Ali et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Microsoft excel expert certification MO-201: results, analysis and key tips to succeed

Online veröffentlicht: 12. Dez. 2022

Seitenbereich: 1 - 8

Eingereicht: 01. Aug. 2022

Akzeptiert: 01. Okt. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjbpa-2022-0011

SchlüsselwörterMOS Excel Expert Test, Non-parametric tests, Advanced Excel functions

© 2022 Shahid I. Ali et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Schlüsselwörter
MOS Excel Expert Test, Non-parametric tests, Advanced Excel functions