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1. Calculus I with modules (4 points) Calculus I class is done with a different

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1. Calculus I with modules (4 points) Calculus I class is done with a different teaching style called calculus with modules. All students in Calculus I have to be able to pass 5 learning objectives. The assessment tools for those learning objectives are common throughout calculus I. In the excel file SLO-Modules you will find the percentages for my students. The average scores for each SLO for all classes in Calculus 1 are: 0.75, 0.88, 0.75, 0.68, 0.36 respectively. Design a p-value test and try to find out if teaching calculus I with modules improves the SLO averages. You can use SAS or R

Explanation / Answer

> x1=c(0.6,1,0.8,0.9,1,1,1,0.8,1,0.8,1,0.9,0.6,1,1,1)
> x2=c(1,1,1,0.4,1,1,1,0.6,0.8,0.6,1,0.6,0,0.6,1,0.8)
> x3=c(0.8,0.8,0.6,0.3,1,0.4,0.7,0.5,0.6,0.8,0.9,0.4,0.4,0.6,1,0.8)
> x4=c(0.6,1,0,0.6,1,0,0.5,0.9,1,0.8,0.9,0.4,0.5,0.6,1,1)
> x5=c(0.8,0.5,0.6,0.2,1,0.8,0.4,0.8,0.4,0.8,0.8,0.7,0.7,0.6,1,1)
> x=cbind(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5)
> y=c(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5)
> summary(x)
       x1            x2              x3               x4              x5      
Min.   :0.6   Min.   :0.000   Min.   :0.3000   Min.   :0.000   Min.   :0.2000
1st Qu.:0.8   1st Qu.:0.600   1st Qu.:0.4750   1st Qu.:0.500   1st Qu.:0.5750
Median :1.0   Median :0.900   Median :0.6500   Median :0.700   Median :0.7500
Mean   :0.9   Mean   :0.775   Mean   :0.6625   Mean   :0.675   Mean   :0.6937
3rd Qu.:1.0   3rd Qu.:1.000   3rd Qu.:0.8000   3rd Qu.:1.000   3rd Qu.:0.8000
Max.   :1.0   Max.   :1.000   Max.   :1.0000   Max.   :1.000   Max.   :1.0000
> n = rep(16, 5)
> group = rep(1:5, n)
> data = data.frame(y = y, group = factor(group))
> fit = lm(y ~ group, data)
> anova(fit)
Analysis of Variance Table

Response: y
          Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
group      4 0.6270 0.156750 2.4356 0.05448 .
Residuals 75 4.8269 0.064358                
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1


From this we can say that teaching calculus I with improves the SLO averages.