Assume you have several years of student-level longitudinal data on math test scores, demographic characteristics, and what school each student enrolls in each year.

a. What would be the problem with simply comparing the math test scores of students attending a traditional public school with the outcomes of students who attend a charter school, even controlling for student demographic characteristics? Would this comparison yield the causal effect of attending a charter school on math test scores?

b. Some charter schools are oversubscribed, and by law they are required to admit people by lottery. How would you use the lottery data to overcome selection problems? Would this method tell you how an average charter school affects math test scores?

Please respond to the following: Think about the last event you had to plan for either at work or in your personal life. Did you have a process? How did having or not having a process impact the outcome of the event? Using outside research on formal planning strategies, please share a few ideas on how to improve your current process. Write a minimum of 300 words for your initial response and then post a reply to at least two (2) of your classmates’ posts. Note: All students are required to post a minimum of two (2) posts per online discussion thread. Students must have one (1) original post and a minimum of one (1) other post per discussion thread. Reply Quote

A professor in the accounting department of a business school claims that there is much more variability in the final exam scores of students taking the introductory accounting course as a requirement than for students taking the course as part of a major in accounting. Random samples of 16 non-accounting majors (group 1) and 15 accounting majors (group 2) are taken from the professor's class roster in his large lecture, and the following results are computed based on the final exam scores:

n₁ = 16, S₁² = 154.6,    n₂ = 15, S₂² = 48.5

(a) At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence to support the professor's claim?

(b) What assumptions do you make here about the two populations in order to justify your use of the F test?

play "Innovation Simulation: Breaking News"

This online simulation, you will manage the innovation process for The Citizen Sun, a struggling newspaper company. Working with limited time and budget, students design innovation initiatives-open innovation campaigns, customer focus groups, internal R&D projects-to generate a pool of innovation ideas. You will then review, test, and make a selection from among those ideas in order to choose the best possible innovation for The Citizen Sun news organization. The simulation teaches students about managing the innovation process, the different modes of innovation, idea generation and selection, and the role of organizational context in innovation.

After simulation write a 2 page brief about your outcomes and observations of this simulation.

Complete a Problem Solving discussion in Word. Your Problem Solving discussion should include Problem Statement, Problem Analysis, Program Design, Program Code and Program Test. For the Program Code section, use Raptor to code

1. Alberta Einstein teaches a business class at Podunk University. To evaluate the students in this class, she has given three tests. It is now the end of the semester and Alberta asks you to create a program that inputs each student’s test scores and outputs the average score for each student and the overall class average. (Hint: The outer loop should allow for Ms. Einstein to input all the students, one by one, and the inner loop should accept the three test scores and compute the average for each student.)

2.     The dataset QuizPulse10 contains pulse rates collected from 10 students in a class lecture and then from the same ten students during a quiz. We might expect the mean pulse rate to increase under the stress of a quiz. Use the dataset to test at the 5% significance level whether there is evidence to support this claim.

a.     Perform the hypothesis test in Minitab.

b.    Make a decision and mathematically justify your decision

c.     Interpret the results.

One Way ANOVA

The “Award” variable represents whether the student said that they would prefer to win an Academy Award, Nobel Prize, or Olympic Medal. The “SAT” variable is the students’ total SAT score (Verbal + Math). We want to compare the SAT scores for the three Award categories. Remember to include all relevant output that supports your answers. And, remember to clearly identify your final answer from any output used.

A. Use Minitab Express to compute the mean and standard deviation of total SAT scores for students who selected each of the three different awards. Include your output below.

B. Use Minitab Express to construct side-by-side boxplots to compare the total SAT scores for students who selected each of the three different awards. Copy + paste your graph here.

C. Based on the boxplot created in part b, do you think the average SAT score statistically differs by award? Explain.

D. Use Minitab Express to conduct a one-way ANOVA to compare the mean total SAT scores for students who selected each of the three different awards. Use the five-step hypothesis testing procedure.

Step 1: State hypotheses and check assumptions

Step 2: Compute the test statistic

Step 3: Determine the p-value

Step 4: Make a decision (reject or fail to reject the null)

Step 5: State a real world conclusion

E. Use Minitab Express to conduct Tukey simultaneous tests for differences in means. Remember to include your relevant output here. Clearly state which pairs are different and which pairs are not different.

F. Explain why it would not be appropriate to just conduct a series of three independent means t tests in this scenario.

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Q6. Essay: Medical School Admission---

Revisit Answer the following question in an argumentative essay. A medical school has received 300 applications from students who want to enrol. The school has the capacity to accept only 120 new students. All the 300 applicants have at least the minimum academic requirements. All have sent cheques for the $6,000.00 tuition fee. Since the number of applicants exceeded the number of slots, there is scarcity and a need to determine which applicants will be admitted and which will not. It is important to recognize that each of these allocation mechanisms, institutions, or governance alternatives will likely result in a different class composition, i.e., a different 120 students granted admission. Which allocation mechanism do you think is the best? Present your answer in the framework of economics (maximum of 200 words). Note: Unlike the last essay question (Assignment 1 Problem 5), your logic affects the grade for this essay question. This question asks you if you understand the economic concept we learned in this course. Make sure to proofread for typos and the like; obvious grammatical/spelling errors could lower your grade. To get a full credit, the following hint will help. Hint: Allocating school admission seats is different from allocating goods and services. The interesting issue is: which class is best from society’s perspective? That is actually a deeper or broader question that asks how we should allocate the talents of the 300 students, between using their time as doctors or in a next best alternative. Would it not be great if the allocation mechanism resulted in their first best choice for their time also being the first best choice for society? Is it possible that each student’s best choice might also be the best choice from society’s perspective? Could private interest and social interest be the same?

Question 1

A recent national survey found that high school students watched an average of 6.8 videos per month. A random sample of 36 high school students revealed that the mean number of vidoes watched last month was 6.2. From past experience it is known that the population standard deviation of the number of vidoes watched by high school students is 0.5. At the 0.05 level of signifiance, can we conclude that high school students are watching fewer vidoes?

(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

(b) Compute the value of the Test Statistic?

(c) State the p-value for this test.

(d) State the conclusion for the test. Give reasons for your answer.

Question 2

From past records it is known that the average life of a battery used in a digital clock is 305 days. The lives of the batteries are normally distributed. The battery was recently modified to last longer. A sample of 40 modifed batteries was tested. It was discovered that the mean life was 311 days, and the sample standard deviation was 22 days. At the 0.01 level of sigificance, did the modofication increase the mean life of the battery?

(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

(b) Compute the value of the Test Statistic?

(c) State the critical region for this test.

(d) State the conclusion for the test. Give reasons for your answer.

Question 3

A machine is set to produce no more than 0.07 defectives when properly adjusted. After the machine had been in operation for some time, a sample of one hundred pieces was tested. Twenty defectives pieces were observed. Is there evidence at the 5% level of significance that the machine needs readjustment?

(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

(b) Compute the value of the Test Statistic?

(c) State the p-value for this test.

(d) State the conclusion for the test. Give reasons for your answer.

1. create teaching session about smoking cessation
2. Using evidence-based research findings that you apply to your topic, develop the following:
   1. Learning objectives
      1. Identify your students/audience; what information is most important for them to know/incorporate into their clinical practice?
      2. Consider the topic; what are the focused, critical learning components you must assure your students take away from your session? What “clinical pearls” can you teach them that would benefit their patient populations?
      3. Research your topic, define the key areas of information you wish to relate to your audience about this topic. Contemplate the value of the information and the time-frame in which you have to deliver this content when creating your outline. While you may want to share a considerable amount of valuable information with your students/audience, you must refine your content in order to provide them with useful content that stimulates critical thinking
      4. 1. Teaching strategies
            1. Consider your students and available resources when designing your teaching strategies. Look to the literature for ideas. Think about the types of learners in your classroom, are they visual, kinesthetic, or perhaps auditory learners, or are they a combination learner? Would the use of technology or simple lecture be most valuable for imparting information to this group? You may not have all the resources you wish to apply in this setting however you should minimally mention ones that you would use if available when crafting your summative report.
         2. Evaluation method
            1. How will you evaluate learning outcomes? Think about the brief amount of time you will have to present your topic, this time must include a method of evaluation for assessing learning- what method could you incorporate into your lesson to ensure that your audience grasped the key concepts you are trying to impart?