Scenario
At Blooming Park State University, the president and Board of Trustees have developed a strategic goal designed to help them gain a complete understanding of the various constituencies that comprise the university culture: the students, faculty, alumni, community members, staff, et cetera. This is a comprehensive undertaking that requires surveying the various stakeholders in an effort to understand them with respect to myriad variables. Because you have extensive experience with investigating problems of practice and using appropriate research designs, the president and Board of Trustees tapped you to conduct this research. The first thing you did was work with the various stakeholders and your team to develop a comprehensive survey and administer it to 792 members of the school community. You included a variety of questions in the survey and compiled the results in an Excel spreadsheet named Blooming Park University Survey.
The president and Board of Trustees then asked you to conduct preliminary descriptive data analysis. Specifically, they asked you to choose any five variables (representing each of the five levels of measurement) and conduct descriptive statistics in an effort to provide them with important descriptive information about the school community and culture.
Complete the following:
Classify each of the five variables in the EDD-FPX8050 Assessment 1 Data Set [XLSX] based on variable types. Select variables so that the level of measurement of your five variables include nominal, ordinal, and interval levels of measurement.
Conduct a descriptive data analysis for each of the five study variables using IBM SPSS. The following data should be produced by the resulting descriptive analysis and reported in your narrative summary of the analysis:
Measures of central tendency:
Mean.
Mode.
Median.
Measures of dispersion:
Standard error.
Standard deviation.
Variance.
Range.
Sum.
Report the results of your descriptive data analysis (including how you classified the five variables you selected for your analysis) and provide a narrative account of the step-by-step process you followed to conduct the analysis.
Note 1: Data Set 1 is a large data set with over 100 variables. Use the data set tab view to scroll from column A to column CH. Use the codebook tab view to scroll down and see the value labels.
Note 2: You could import the entire data set into SPSS or you could copy out just those five variable columns and put them in an SPSS file. Submit your paper to the assessment area.
