Name: Ybur Clieve Olsen B.

Dahilog
Course: MS GENERAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
Adviser: Raul Orongan PhD.

EDUC – 242: STATISTICS ACTIVITY 3

1. Ten recruits participated in a rifle shooting competition at the end of their first day at training camp.
The same ten competed again at the end of a full week training and practice. Their results are shown in
the following table.

RECRUIT

TIME OF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
COMPETITION
FIRST DAY 72 49 57 70 68 59 51 73 38 44
ONE WEEK 75 53 63 83 63 72 43 62 47 55
LATER

Does this set of ten pairs of data show that there was a significant amount of improvement in the
recruits shooting abilities during the week? Use α =0.05

A. VARIABLES

Independent Variable - Ten (10) recruits from the training camp

Dependent Variable- number of rifle shoots

B. HYPOTHESIS

Null hypothesis- There is no significant amount of improvement in the recruits shooting abilities
during the week in the competition.

Alternative hypothesis- There is significant amount of improvement in the recruits shooting

abilities during the week in the competition.

C. LEVEL Of SIGNIFICANCE: 0.05 level of significance

D. APPROPRIATE STATISTICS: Paired T-Test

E. COMPUTATION/ANALYSIS

Paired Samples Test

Paired Differences Sig. (2-tailed)
Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean
Firstday- aweeklater -3.50000 8.74643 2.76586 .237
F. Interpretation/ Implication/ Conclusion

The p-value of the sample is .237 which is higher than the established level of significance, 0.05. This
means that the null hypothesis is accepted. There is no significant amount of improvement of shooting
abilities in from the recruits during the week in the competition

RESULTS of problem 1

Paired Samples Statistics

Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Pair 1 Firstday 58.10 10 12.441 3.934

aweeklater 61.6000 10 12.58924 3.98107

Paired Samples Correlations

N Correlation Sig.
Paired Samples Test
Pair 1 Firstday &Paired
aweeklater
Differences
10 .756 .011

Mean ion Upper t

Pair Firstday - -3.50000 8.746 2.75682 -
1 aweeklater 43 1.265

95% Confidence

Std. Interval of the

Deviat Std. Error Difference Sig. (2-

Mean Lower df tailed)

2.76586 -9.75682 9 .237

2. All students who enrol in a certain memory course are given a pretest before the course begins. A
random sample of ten students who finished the course were given a post-test and their scores are
listed below.

Student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Before 73 56 42 34 65 63 46 75 62 54
After 88 72 50 52 84 64 52 83 71 67
Test for the main improvement in memory resulting from taking the memory course, as measured by
the difference in the scores (d= after – before). Verify the results shown on the output by calculating the
values yourself.

A. VARIABLES

Independent Variable - students who enrol in a certain memory course

Dependent Variable- pretest and post-test score

B. HYPOTHESIS

Null hypothesis- The scores in the pretest and post-test has no significant difference after taking
the memory course.

Alternative hypothesis- The scores in the pretest and post-test has significant difference after
taking the memory course

C. LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: 0.05 level of significance

D. APPROPRIATE STATISTICS: Paired T-Test

E. COMPUTATION/ANALYSIS: Paired Samples Test

Paired Differences t df Sig. (2-tailed)

N Mean Std. Deviation
Pair 1 before - after 10 -11.30000 -6.147 9 .000
F. Interpretation/ Implication/ Conclusion

The p-value of the sample is less than 0.001, which implies that it is lower than the established 0.05 level
of significance. This means, the null hypothesis is rejected. The scores in the pretest and post-test has
significant difference after taking the memory course.

Results in problem 2

Paired Samples Statistics

Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Pair 1 before 57.0000 10 13.29160 4.20317

after 68.3000 10 13.97657 4.41978

Paired Samples Correlations

N Correlation Sig.
Pair 1 before & after 10 .910 .000
Paired Samples Test
Paired Differences
95% Confidence
Interval of the
Std. Std. Error Difference Sig. (2-
Mean Deviation Mean Lower Upper t df tailed)
Pair before - - 5.81282 1.83818 -15.45824 -7.14176 -6.147 9 .000
1 after 11.3000
0

3. A company wants to determine if a prevention campaign will decrease the amount of time that
employees are unavailable for work due to illness. For a group of 10 employees their sick days in one
year is measure before and after the campaign. The measurements are reported in the following table:

Before: 18 17 9 7 16 14 19 23 8 14
After: 10 12 5 4 11 12 14 15 3 10
Test if the campaign has made a significant difference in absenteeism due to illness (ALPHA

=0:05)

A. VARIABLES

Independent Variable - group of 10 employees from the company

Dependent Variable- sick days in one year measured before and after the campaign

B. HYPOTHESIS

Null hypothesis- The prevention campaign did not make a significant difference in absenteeism of
employees due to illness.

Alternative hypothesis- The prevention campaign made a significant difference in absenteeism of

employees due to illness.

C. LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: 0.05 level of significance

D. APPROPRIATE STATISTICS: Paired T-Test

E. COMPUTATION/ ANALYSIS

Paired Differences t df Sig. (2-tailed)

N Mean Std. Deviation
Pair 1 before - 10 4.90000 1.91195 8.104 9 .000
after
G. Interpretation/ Implication/ Conclusion

The p-value of the sample is less than 0.001, which implies that it is lower than the established 0.05 level
of significance. This means, the null hypothesis is rejected. The prevention campaign has made a
significant difference in the absenteeism of employees due to illness.

RESULTS of problem 3

Paired Samples Statistics

Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Pair 1 before 14.5000 10 5.19080 1.64148

after 9.6000 10 4.19524 1.32665

Paired Samples Correlations

N Correlation Sig.

Pair 1 before & after 10 .939 .000

Paired Samples Test

Paired Differences

95% Confidence
Std. Error Interval of the
Std. Sig.
Mean Deviation Mean Difference t df (2tailed)

Lower Upper

Pair before - 4.9000 1.91195 .60461 3.53227 6.26773 8.104 9 .000

0
1 after

PART II:

A. VARIABLES

Independent Variable - students in the class of 52

Dependent Variable- students’ attitude before and after the teacher’s intervention
B. HYPOTHESIS

Null hypothesis- There is no significant difference on the attitudes of students before and after
the intervention given by the teacher.

Alternative hypothesis- There is significant difference on the attitudes of students before and
after the intervention given by the teacher.

C. LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: 0.05 level of significance

D. APPROPRIATE STATISTICS: Paired T-Test

E. COMPUTATION/ANALYSIS: Paired Samples Test

Paired Differences t df Sig. (2-tailed)

N Mean Std. Deviation
Pair 1 Before - After 10 .01000 .35147 .121 17 .905
F. Interpretation/ Implication/ Conclusion

The p-value of the given sample is .905 which is higher than the 0.05 level of significance. Thus, the null
hypothesis is accepted. There is no significant difference on the attitudes of students before and after
the intervention given by the teacher.

RESULTS OF PART II Problem

Paired Samples Statistics

Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Pair 1 Before 3.5739 18 .41331 .09742

After 3.5639 18 .43838 .10333

Paired Samples Correlations

N Correlation Sig.

Pair 1 Before & After 18 .661 .003

 Paired Samples Test
Paired Differences
95% Confidence Interval
Std. Std. Error of the Difference Sig. (2-
Mean Deviation Mean Lower Upper t df tailed)
Pair 1 Before - .01000 .35147 .08284 -.16478 .18478 .121 17 .905
After

DATA:

STUDENT BEFORE ATTITUDE AFTER ATTITUDE

1 3.42 3.45
2 4.00 4.10
3 3.18 3.05
4 3.53 3.57
5 3.60 3.60
6 3.85 3.28
7 3.43 3.33
8 3.53 3.73
9 3.50 3.57
10 4.20 3.90
11 3.68 3.10
12 3.48 3.40
13 4.17 4.22
14 3.53 3.50
15 3.83 4.18
16 3.18 3.13
17 3.52 3.62
18 2.92 2.83
19 2.75 3.05
20 3.03 3.82
21 3.42 3.52
22 3.77 4.20
23 4.15 3.87
24 3.75 3.45
25 3.88 3.47
26 3.52 3.15
27 4.10 4.05
28 3.30 2.97
29 3.45 3.33

30 3.75 3.82
31 3.62 3.55
32 3.63 3.42
33 3.47 3.60
34 3.42 3.70
35 4.07 3.97
36 4.35 4.23
37 3.45 3.47
38 3.57 3.45
39 3.65 3.72
40 3.90 3.92
41 3.20 3.93
42 3.27 3.15
43 3.10 3.63
44 3.48 3.90
45 3.12 3.25
46 3.95 3.62
47 3.43 3.57
48 3.67 3.30
49 3.78 3.62
50 3.75 3.53
51 3.72 3.82
52 3.52 3.53