On the first day of the education program, a pre-test is administered to all students. On the final day of the educational program, an identical post-test is administered. After the educational program ends, your professor asks you to help her analyze the results. Your professor predicts that pre- and post-test scores will differ significantly and wants to use an alpha level of 0.01.
Pre-Test |
Post-Test |
34 |
40 |
67 |
70 |
23 |
34 |
76 |
75 |
12 |
23 |
8 |
10 |
45 |
56 |
68 |
76 |
78 |
93 |
13 |
17 |
(Remember, if you are running a one-tailed test, your alpha value is located in one-tail, meaning your p-value needs to be less than 0.01 to reject the null hypothesis.
If you are running a two-tailed test, your alpha value is divided in half, meaning your p-value needs to be less than 0.005 to reject the null hypothesis)
a) It it two tailed test
b) H0: The professor predicts that pre- and post-test scores will not differ significantly
H1: The professor predicts that pre- and post-test scores will differ significantly
Let the los be alpha = 5%
c) Paired t test is used for this data
d) From the given data, the paired t test is run and the output be
Test Statistic t = -4.398
P-value = 0.002 < alpha 0.05 so we accept H0
Thus we conclude that the professor predicts that pre- and post-test scores will not differ significantly.
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