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    The document describes a study that tested students' ability to predict how moving bodies behave before and after attending a physics course. It provides data on the mean and standard deviation of scores before and after the course. A t-test was conducted and determined that the difference in scores before and after was statistically significant, meaning the physics course improved students' test scores.

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    The document describes a study that tested students' ability to predict how moving bodies behave before and after attending a physics course. It provides data on the mean and standard deviation of scores before and after the course. A t-test was conducted and determined that the difference in scores before and after was statistically significant, meaning the physics course improved students' test scores.

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    Problem 4.

    Students were tested on their ability to predict how moving bodies behave, both before and after
    attending a course on Newtonian physics. Their marks are tabulated here. Did attending the
    course have a significant effect on their test scores, and if so by how much?

    NULL HYPOTHESIS: The students' scores after the course have a significance as before it.

    ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS: The students' scores after the course does NOT have a
    significance as before it.
    VARIABLES:
    Before After

    MEAN 58.1 53.8

    STANDARD DEVIATION 15.58 20.49

    STANDARD ERROR 1.78916492 1.78916492

    SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL 0.05 0.05

    SAMPLE SIZE 10 10

    DEGREES OF FREEDOM 9 9

    TEST STATISTICS:
    p value 0.04

    Critical test stat 2.403

    95% confidence neg 0.2 to neg

    interval 0.8

    DECISION: The t-test (2.40) is larger than the p-value (0.04) that is needed for df, therefore we
    fail to reject Ho.

    CONCLUSION: The students' scores after the course did have a significant effect.

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