Overview
A social work intern is conducting a parenting class for clients at her agency. The social work intern is interested in examining if there is a relationship between participants’ sex (male or female) and whether or not they had received prior parenting training (yes or no)
The student ran a chi-square test to address their research question. The intern's data file is attached. Focus on the relevant variables: “Participants’ Prior Training”; “Gender of Participants”
For this homework, do the following:
- State your research question
- State your independent and dependent variables
- State your research hypothesis
- State your null hypothesis
- Conduct a Chi-square test in JASP with the intern data. Here is how to do it (details are in this week's PowerPoints):
- Create a spreadsheet with the intern data so that you can run it in JASP
- Save your file as .csv
- If using JASP online: Upload file to OSF
- Open your file in JASP: Open > My Computer > [Your file]
- If using JASP online: Open > OSF > Log in to OSF > [Your file]
- Double check that the variables are measured at the correct levels
- Run descriptives
- Run a graph
- Run your Chi-Square test
- Interpret output; be sure to report:
- Your descriptives output table
- Write one - two sentences describing each of the variables
- Your graphs
- Your Contingency table
- Your Chi-Square test output table
- Write an explanation of your chi-square test results in sentence form. Use this format, and fill in the information in red based on your results:
- I ran a chi-square test in JASP to examine [insert a brief explanation of what you were trying to understand]. I set the alpha level to ___. Results show that there was/was not a significant ______ between the prior training and sex, where p=___, df=____, χ² = ____. Therefore, I reject/do not reject the null hypothesis. In summary, [in simple terms, what does this mean about the intervention?]
- Your descriptives output table