Tuesday, March 29, 2011

March 29, 2011: Action Research Paper

During the past few class periods we have been working on our Action Research Project.  Before we started writing our paper, we edited a spreadsheet and found the averages for both the pretest scores and post test scores between gender, male and female, and class distribution, traditional and non-traditional students.  While using this spreadsheet we used many functions including the average function, standard deviation function, ttest function, countif function, and the averageif function as well as basic subtraction addition and division.  After our spreadsheet was finished we created graphs and tables using our data. 

After completing all of the necessary tasks on  the excel spreadsheet, we then because writing our Action Research Paper in APA formatting.  We answered our first question about gender distribution and included a chart and a table to accompany our findings.  We then used the ttest to determine whether there was a significant difference between the scores of males and females.  After answering the first question we then moved on to our second question which was about class distribution and whther there was a difference in traditional and non traditional test scores.  We also included the chart, table and ttest for this test.  Included below is the link to my Action Research Paper which I made public on GoogleDocs.

Here is the link to my Action Reasearch Paper.

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