Monday, November 7, 2011

Statistical Analysis

Statistical Analysis:
Research Question 1

Research Question 2

Research question 1 asked Does the age of the student affect the Millenial score. According to the ttest students age 20-29 had an average Millenial score of 77 and ages 30-57 had an average Millenial score of 64. I see a big difference in those numbers. The younger the student, the higher the Millenial score which is waht my hypothesis stated.

Research questions 2 asked Does gender affect the number of blog posts made. According to the ttest male students had an average of 15 blog posts and females had an average of 17 blog posts. There is not a big difference in the numbers, just an average of two higher for female students. My hypothesis stated the female gender would have on average more blog posts than the male gender, which turned out true; however, I thought it would be a significant difference.

This assignment was hard for me. I couldn't get the sample video to play until I was halfway through the quiz which showed in my quiz grade. Once I was able to watch the video I was able to understand a little better. The sorting and the find and replace wasn't difficult and putting the information in the data analysis for the ttest wasn't difficult just interpretting the results was difficult for me. It is something I have never seen or used before and I hope I get more practice with it. I can see where it would be a great tool to use as a teacher to understand students' test results better and to adjust the teaching for different situations. I hope I can use this later on in my teaching career.

NETS-T
2d, 3a, 3b, 3d, 5

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