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.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- 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: Enter appropriate statistical data that assists in program evaluation.
- 4: Apply critical thinking in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology.
- Related Assignment Criteria:
- 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.
Assignment Scenario
You are overseeing a mentoring program for youth who have been identified as being at risk and you want to complete a program evaluation to measure the impact on youth who participate. You also want to consider whether variables such as sex and race/ethnicity factor into the results.
Assignment Instructions
In the Week 2 Dataset 1 [DOCX], find baseline data for the youth who have entered the program. From this data, identify all of the variables represented and input the data into an Excel file. Save the file as a “comma separated values” (.csv) file and open this .csv file in JASP. Make sure to modify the data types of each variable to the correct scale of measurement (nominal, ordinal, or scale).
Refer to the JASP Tutorial Video: Adjusting Data Types (Nominal, Ordinal, Scale)Links to an external site. for help.
Save your .jasp file and upload it for grading.
Note that you are not completing any analysis at this point in time. You are simply practicing entering data in Excel and saving it in a format that is then opened in JASP. You need to demonstrate the ability to identify the correct level of measurement for each variable.
