Development of a digital training for social and emotional competences for medical assistants in vocational education and training in Germany

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 4 Means, standard deviations and t-tests on evaluation items for different types of practice

	Employer				t (49)	p	Cohen’s d
	General practice^a		Specialists’ practice^b
	M	SD	M	SD
Perceived difficulty	4.16	0.96	3.66	1.04	1.72	0.09	0.49
Perceived duration	5.00	1.25	4.81	1.26	0.52	0.61	0.15
Interest in content	4.47	1.65	4.13	1.66	0.73	0.47	0.21
Fun with training	4.05	1.58	3.72	1.46	0.77	0.45	0.22
Curiosity during training	3.95	1.39	3.59	1.41	0.87	0.39	0.26
Time flew by	4.32	1.77	4.16	2.07	0.28	0.78	0.08
Mind wandering	2.68	1.95	2.63	1.60	0.12	0.91	0.03
Concentration problems	3.05	1.72	2.84	1.71	0.42	0.68	0.12

For all items: scale from 1 to 7, however for first two items, 4 was labeled “just right” vs. for rest of items, 4 was labeled “reasonably”
^an = 19; ^bn = 32