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Design 2 (x 1 X2 data): A teacher was always told that the best testing format f

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Question

Design 2 (x 1 X2 data): A teacher was always told that the best testing format for college students was multiple choice, because that format allowed a more accurate measure of a student's knowledge. To test this hypothesis, he tested one random sample of college freshmen with true/false questions (x1) and another random sample of college freshmen with multiple choice questions (x2). The dependent variable was the number of points earned out of twenty possible As listed above, use the x1 cell above to represent the students' scores taking the true/false test, and the x2 cell above to represent the students' scores taking the multiple choice test. 39. What is the correct statistical test to use? How do you know? HTML Editor

Explanation / Answer

Since we have to compare the two datas related to scores of the same students,

So its better to use Dependent t-test for paired samples

As the two data values are of college freshmen