What is your purpose in applying for graduate study in your specified degree program? Describe your area(s) of interest, including any subfield(s) or interdisciplinary interests.What are your plans for your career after earning this degree?

Statement of purpose of UCLA

What is your purpose in applying for graduate study in your specified degree program? Describe your area(s) of interest, including any subfield(s) or interdisciplinary interests.

What experiences have prepared you for advanced study or research in this degree program? What relevant skills have you gained from these experiences? Have your experiences led to specific or tangible outcomes that would support your potential to contribute to this field (examples: performances, publications, presentations, awards or recognitions)?

What additional information about your past experience may aid the selection committee in evaluating your preparation and aptitude for graduate study at UCLA? For example, you may wish to describe research, employment, teaching, service, artistic or international experiences through which you have developed skills in leadership, communication, project management, teamwork, or other areas.

Why is the UCLA graduate program to which you are applying is the best place for you to pursue your academic goals? If you are applying for a research master’s or doctoral program, we encourage you to indicate specific research interests and potential faculty mentors.

What are your plans for your career after earning this degree?

Select two categorical variables from the data sets provided for the Scholar-Practitioner Project.Consider why the researchers may have chosen to make them categorical variables and decide whether you would have made the same classification.

Categorical Variables ET

To prepare:

Select two categorical variables from the data sets provided for the Scholar-Practitioner Project.

Consider why the researchers may have chosen to make them categorical variables and decide whether you would have made the same classification.

Write an evaluation of the two variables you selected. Include the following:

A brief description of the two categorical variables you selected from the database

An explanation of why you believe the variables were created as categorical variables instead of continuous variables

An explanation of whether you believe this is a correct classification for this study (provide a rationale)

Support your post with the Learning Resources and current literature. Use APA 7 formatting for your paper and to cite your resources.

Resources

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education. (n.d.). Opening, saving and merging data in SPSS.

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education. (2006). Teaching students quantitative methods using resources from the British Birth Cohorts.

UCLA. Learning SPSS.

See attached Hawaii dataset (Hawaii ss05HHI dataset) in zip folder [it includes the original excel file, spss file converted from excel, and the data dictionary]