March 31, 2011: Pop Quiz!

Today in class we are having a Pop Quiz.  Included in this quiz are 3 Parts I will need to do and answer in this blog post. 
     Part 1: I have saved my APA paper from Microsoft Word as a PDF file and uploaded it to GoogleDocs.  I then shared my paper with the professor and set it as public so that anyone can see it. 

• Click here to see my final APA paper using GoogleDocs.

Important things to know about Google Documents

• Save your document as a PDF file
• If you don't, changes will be made to the paper whiole formatting it to GoogleDocs such as charts disappearing, tables being changed, and the paper structure being changed
•  By uploading the paper as a PDF, you can bypass all of these unexpected changes

     Part 2 on our pop quiz is to simply write this blog post.  I have already explained what I learned about uploading to GoogleDocs, and now I will explain about APA formatting.  When you are writing a paper in APA style, you must first begin with stating the question you wish to answer and then explain the question and the tests you have done to come up with your solution.  After you do this, you should include a piece of evidence that shows the test you are doing such as a graph or a pie chart.  After explaining this chart and stating your answer to your previously stated question, you must then include a table and the TTest results proving your answer is correct.
     Part 3 of our test involves using the Jing tool and creating two videos: one demonstating how to install the analysis tool pack in in Microsoft Excel, and the second demonstating how to do a TTest.  My videos are included below.   

• Click here to se how to install the analysis took pack in Excel.
• Click here to see how to perform a TTest in Excel.

After doing a TTest, you need to look at the P(T<=t) two-tail row to determine whether or not there was a significant difference in your objective, in this case it is the difference between pre-test and post-test scores.  To determine the significance you must use this rule, If the answer is aboce 0.5 there is no significant difference, and if the answer is below 0.5 there is a significant difference.  In this test, the answer was well below 0.5, so the result I have came up with is a significant difference in the two test scores.