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 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 Vold Anti-Poverty Foundation is comparing three employment programs for former foster care youth to determine which leads to best outcomes. The three programs are a vocational skills training program, a mentorship program, and a job placement service. The foundation collected data six months after the youth completed each program and the youth were asked to provide their monthly incomes.

Assignment Instructions

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

1. Review the tutorial provided in the first study in this unit as a guide for conducting ANOVA tests.
2. Use the Unit 7 Dataset, given in the resources, to test whether monthly income varied by type of services rendered at a .05 level of significance.
3. State the following, based on the output shown in the output file you develop:
   • For each group, state the sample size and monthly income (mean and standard deviation).
   • State the results of the F-test including degrees of freedom, F-statistic, and p-value.
   • If the overall F-test is significant, report the results of the Tukey post hoc test. 
4. Respond to the following prompts, based on the value of the test statistic:
   • Would the ANOVA test lead you to retain the null hypothesis or reject the null hypothesis?
   • Which groups had the best outcomes, if there is a statistically significant difference?
5. Provide a summary of the conclusion for this test. Be sure to include the interpretation of the findings for the Vold Foundation.