) Formulate the null and the alternative hypotheses that fit this scenario. Write the hypothesis with symbols (<, >, =) followed by a formulation as statements. b) Select and compute the appropriate test statistic. c) Use the test the hypothesis to test the hypothesis at alpha=0.05. d) Write your conclusions based on alpha=0.05; when you formulate your conclusions, anchor them back to the original problem and to what the researcher aimed at testing.

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A sociologist of education wants to prove that students’ sense of mastery and control before a math test could increase if students had a chance to practice with examples of questions from typical tests. The sociologist has long studied sense of content’s mastery and emotional control pre-math test with a scale called NoStressM, which ranges from 0 to 50, where 0 indicates great stress, and 50 indicates great control and mastery. In the typical student population, the day before the math test, students score 20 points on average, with a standard deviation of 6 points. The sociologist selected at a random a sample of 60 students from different schools and 3 offered them to practice for a week with questions drawn from typical math tests. The day before the math test, she administered the NoStressM scale to the 60 students and found a sample mean of 23 and a standard deviation like the one in the population. Your turn:

a) Formulate the null and the alternative hypotheses that fit this scenario. Write the hypothesis with symbols (<, >, =) followed by a formulation as statements.

b) Select and compute the appropriate test statistic.

c) Use the test the hypothesis to test the hypothesis at alpha=0.05.

d) Write your conclusions based on alpha=0.05; when you formulate your conclusions, anchor them back to the original problem and to what the researcher aimed at testing.

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