Assignment Overview
By successfully completing this assignment, you demonstrate your proficiency in the following competency and specialized behaviors:
Competency 4: Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
C4.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, ethical use of technology and research findings to inform and improve practice, policy, and programs in the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1: Devise accurate datasets.
3: Describe and report the statistical method or test outcomes using the appropriate statistical method or test.
C4.SP.B: Analyze and respond to ethical, culturally informed, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive strategies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice that address inherent biases for use in quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Related Assignment Criteria:
2: Develop appropriate statistical tests and reports that assist in program evaluation.
4: Apply critical thinking in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology.
Assignment Scenario
An organization called The Durante Foundation values education and wants to fund an educational community grant to enhance graduation rates. The foundation needs to understand the central tendencies for education levels of individuals within the community. A survey was taken of individuals, ages 24–35, to determine years of completed formal education. The foundation is requesting the mean, median, and mode values for grades of educational attainment within the community. Use the Week 3 Dataset [JASP], to complete this assignment. (13–20 equates to years in college.)
Assignment Instructions
Respond to the following prompts in a one-page, APA-formatted paper:
State the following values (from the JASP output table):
Mean.
Median.
Mode (or modes).
Standard deviation.
Interpret the data displayed in the output table. Which measure of central tendency is the most appropriate statistic to summarize these data and why?
Provide a narrative summary to the Durante Foundation that would include the mean, mode, and median values and your interpretation of that data. Include implications of the findings for the foundation’s future funding priorities.
