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Assignment 1

Measures of Central Tendency and Standard Deviation

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

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 Unit 3 Dataset, given in the resources, 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 SPSS output table):
Mean.
Median.
Mode (or modes).
Standard deviation.

Interpret the data displayed in the SPSS 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.