A Researcher Was Interested in Stress Levels of Lecturers During

question 21

Multiple Choice

A researcher was interested in stress levels of lecturers during lectures. She took the same group of eight lecturers and measured their anxiety (out of 15) during a normal lecture and again in a lecture in which she had paid students to be disruptive and misbehave. Based on the SPSS output, how would you interpret these results?

• A) Anxiety levels were significantly lower in lectures in which students misbehaved.
• B) There were no significant differences between anxiety levels in normal lectures and in those in which students misbehaved.
• C) Anxiety levels were significantly higher in lectures in which students misbehaved.
• D) We can't tell any of the above from the output given.

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