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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, decision making, and the use of technology to inform evidence-based research practice to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criteria:
1: Devise accurate SPSS datasets.
3: Describe and report the statistical method or test outcomes using the appropriate statistical method or test.
C4.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and the use of technology to inform program evaluation to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings. ?
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
The town of Brant has started an after-school program for high school youth to prepare them for the ACT college entrance examination. The after-school program had 29 youth participants; the program manager compared their ACT scores with the ACT scores of 36 similar high school youth who did not participate in the after-school program. The program manager wants to determine if the after-school program had a positive effect on ACT scores. You will use the Unit 5 Dataset, given in the resources, to complete this assignment.

Assignment Instructions
For this assignment, complete the following in a one-page, APA-formatted paper:

1. Review the tutorial in the unit study, which demonstrates t tests using two different scenarios. Then determine which type of t test to conduct. Once you have determined that, answer the following:
What is the sample size?
What is the sample mean of each group?

2. Identify the following factors based on the table you develop in SPSS:
Mean difference.
T obtained (t).
Degrees of freedom (df).
Significance (two-tailed).

3. Write a brief narrative explaining the implications of your findings based on the value of the test statistic:
Would you retain or reject the null hypothesis?
What are limitations that must be considered in interpreting the results?