WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Education
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City

EXAMINATION in FDN 503: Statistics

PART I. Answer Comprehensively

1. Differentiate the descriptive statistics from inferential statistics.

2. Differentiate parametric statistics from non-parametric.

3. Given the following scores 14, 10, 13, 12, 8, 6, 18, 16, 14, 16 solve for the following:
a. Range
b. Mode
c. Median
d. Mean
e. P50

4. Discuss the different sampling techniques.

5. Discuss Type I and Type II error.

Part II. Identify the appropriate statistical test to be used in each of the following
research situations. Justify your answer.

1. Dr. White wants to know if “openness to experience” (OTE) scores improve after 40
high school students goes on a camping trip so she records pre and post camping trip
OTE scores for a students. The research is exploratory so she would like to maximize
power in order to ensure that she does not miss a potentially important effect.

2. A psychologist wants to find out if there is relationship between academic

performance achievement and coping skills. Both variables are measured in interval
scales. A random sample of 100 was selected from the target population.

3. A health researcher wants to help suffers of chronic back pain reduce their pain
levels. The researcher wants to find out whether one of two different treatments is
more effective at reducing pain levels. The researcher split the participants into two
groups: a "massage program" (treatment A) and "acupuncture program" (treatment
B). In total, 30 purposively participants take part in the experiment. Of these 30
participants, 15 are assigned to undergo treatment A (the massage program) and the
other 15 receive treatment B (the acupuncture program). Both treatment programs
last 8 weeks. At the end of this 8-week period, back pain is measured in both groups
using a continuous scale.

4. A university psychometrician is interested to find out if there is significant difference

in the grade point average of students coming from public schools and private
schools. All university freshmen (1,825 students) were taken as sample.

5. A high school, students can choose to enter one of three doors. Custodians noticed
that door #3 was always getting broken and suggested that more students use that
door because it has a hands-free opener. Science minded students counted the
number of students entering each door to see if the custodians were right.

6. Susan Sound predicts that students will learn most effectively with a constant
background sound, as opposed to an unpredictable sound or no sound at all. She
 randomly divides forty-five students into three groups. All students study a passage
of text for 30 minutes. Those in group 1 study with background sound at a constant
volume in the background. Those in group 2 studies with noise that changes volume
periodically. Those in group 3 studies with no sound at all. After studying, all students
take a 10-point multiple choice test over the material.

7. A social science professor wants to test whether gender, IQ, and creativity as
measured by the Torrance Test of Creativity are predictors of academic achievement
as measured by grade point average among high schools students in Iloilo City. The
sample was randomly chosen from all high schools in Iloilo City.

8. A guidance counselor wants to find out if blonds, brunets, and redheads differ in their
extroversion. 24 women from a local college were chosen: eight blonds, eight
brunets, and eight redheads. A questionnaire to measure social extroversion was
then administered to each individual. The questionnaire yields interval data.

9. Using a theory on psychomotor learning, a medical practitioner predicted that elderly

individuals have greater difficulty with a particular manipulative task (MT) than
middle-aged individuals. Twelve elderly women (60 years and older) and 10 younger
women (31 to 50 years of age) all of whom were college graduates agreed to
participate in the study. These 22 women were administered the MT, a measure that
yields scores that range in value from 0 to 150.

10. A university researcher is interested in relating quality of teaching to quality of

research done by university professors. He has access to a sample of 20 physical
science professors who were teaching at the same university for a period of 10 years.
Over this 10-year period, the professors were evaluated on a 5-point scale on their
quality of instruction. The professors’ quality of research is indicated by the number
of research articles that each professor published during this time period.

Part III. Answer each of the following using the steps in testing hypothesis. Use
the data from our class exercises.

1. Is there a significant relationship between student’s performance in English and Math? If

significant, discuss the determination coefficient.

2. Is college entrance test and school graduated from predictors of performance in Math? If
predictor(s) exist, generate the linear model.

3. Is there a significant difference in performance in English and Science? (Assume that the
same students took both exams). If the difference is significant, compute the effect size.

4. Do boys and girls differ significantly in their performance in Artistic ability test? If the
difference is significant, compute the effect size.

5. Do students perform differently in college entrance test according to the educational

qualification of their father? Apply post hoc test if possible.