In Order to Improve the Grades of Students at UTC

question 80

Essay

In order to improve the grades of students at UTC, several incentive programs have been introduced. Results of random samples of grades from after and before the incentive programs are given below.
a.Give the hypotheses.
b.Compute the test statistic.
c.At a 0.1 level of significance, test tto determine whether the incentive programs have significantly increased the average grades.

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Definitions:

Peripheral-Route

A method of persuasion that relies on cues outside of the message content itself, like the attractiveness or credibility of the source.

Central-Route

A method of persuasion that involves deeply processing the content of the message, considering logical and factual arguments.

Attribution Theory

The theory of how people make attributions.

Primacy Effect

Tendency to remember information at the beginning of a body of information better than the information that follows.