The results of a study examining the effectiveness of two instructional strategies indicated a statistically significant difference between the means of the two treatment groups on an achievement test. Which of the following is a reasonable conclusion?
a. We can be 95% confident one instructional strategy is better than the other. |
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b. The difference between the two instructional strategies is meaningful. |
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c. It is likely one instructional strategy is more effective. |
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d. Both instructional strategies are equally effective. |
statistically significant difference between the means of the two treatment groups on an achievement test.
Which means that the means of two treatments different.
Which of the following is a reasonable conclusion?
Answer:-
b. The difference between the two instructional strategies is meaningful
Because we only conclude that the differences are statistically significant.which one greater or less is not tested.
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