An educational psychologist would like to determine whether access to computers has an effect on grades for high school students. One group of n = 16 students has home room each day in a computer classroom which each student has a computer. A comparison group of n = 16 students has home room in a traditional classroom. At the end of the school year, the average grade was recorded for each student. The data are as follows: Computer:          Traditional: M = 86               M = 82.5 SS = 1005          SS = 1155   A)Is there a significant difference between the two groups on school performance? Use a two-tailed test with α = .05.    B)Conduct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean difference between a computer classroom and a regular classroom. (1 pt.) C)Compare your hypothesis test decision and the confidence interval result. Are they consistent with each other? Please explain. (0.5 pt.)

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  1. An educational psychologist would like to determine whether access to computers has an effect on grades for high school students. One group of n = 16 students has home room each day in a computer classroom which each student has a computer. A comparison group of n = 16 students has home room in a traditional classroom. At the end of the school year, the average grade was recorded for each student. The data are as follows:

Computer:          Traditional:

M = 86               M = 82.5
SS = 1005          SS = 1155

 

A)Is there a significant difference between the two groups on school performance? Use a two-tailed test with α = .05. 

 

B)Conduct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean difference between a computer classroom and a regular classroom. (1 pt.)

C)Compare your hypothesis test decision and the confidence interval result. Are they consistent with each other? Please explain. (0.5 pt.)

 

 

 

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