Question

The Dean analyzed 100 randomly selected student opinion survey answers to assess whether students' response to one rating question, ""The instructor created a course environment conducive to my learning"", was independent of the students' rating of another question ""Overall, my learning experience in this course was ..."". Each item was measured on a 5-point scale.

What test would be used?

Two-sample t-test.

Paired t-test.

Wilcoxon rank sum test (U test).

Sign test.

One-way ANOVA.

One-way repeated measures ANOVA.

Kruskal-Wallis test.

Wilcoxon signed rank test.

Two-way ANOVA.

Fisher's exact test.

Chi-square test (any type).

Rank correlation.

Correlation.

Simple linear regression.

Logistic regression.

Multiple regression.

Answer 1

Since we are trying to assess whether the student's response in one question is independent of the student's response in another question, we would use the correlation test (if we are thinking of a parametric test).

(We can also use the "rank correlation test", if we are thinking of conducting a non-parametric test.)