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Reading comprehension test scores of elementary school children randomly assigne

ID: 3041894 • Letter: R

Question

Reading comprehension test scores of elementary school children randomly assigned to one of two teaching methods have the following summary statistics:

We would like to conduct a hypothesis test to determine whether the true mean test score differs for the two teaching methods. Suppose that all necessary assumptions have been satisfied.

What type of test should be used?

Question 13 options:

A)

matched pairs t test

B)

unpooled (conservative) independent two-sample t test

C)

pooled independent two-sample t test

# of Children Mean Standard Deviation Method 1 13 64 5 Method 2 13 69 8

Explanation / Answer

Ans : A) matched pairs t test