{"id":23541,"date":"2022-01-08T01:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/the-national-education-longitudinal-survey-nels-tracks-a-nationally\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:24:02","slug":"the-national-education-longitudinal-survey-nels-tracks-a-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/the-national-education-longitudinal-survey-nels-tracks-a-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"The national education longitudinal survey (nels) tracks a nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) tracks a nationally representative sample\u00a0of U.S. students from eighth grade through high school and college. Research published in\u00a0Chance (Winter 2001) examined the Standardized Admission Test (SAT) scores of 265 NELS\u00a0students who paid a private tutor to help them improve their scores. The next table summarizes\u00a0the changes in both the SAT\u2013Mathematics and SAT\u2013Verbal scores for these students.<br \/>SAT-Math SAT-Verbal<br \/>Mean change in score 19 7<br \/>Standard deviation of score changes 65 49<\/p>\n<p>a. Suppose one of the 265 students who paid a private tutor is selected at random. Give an\u00a0interval that is likely to contain this student\u2019s change in the SAT\u2013Math score.<br \/>THE INTERVAL WOULD BE \u00b13 STD DEV FROM THE MEAN: -176, 214<br \/>(Why the stddev us 3?)<br \/>b. Repeat part a for the SAT\u2013Verbal score. -140, 154<br \/>c. Suppose the selected student increased their score on one of the SAT tests by 140 points.<br \/>Which test, the SAT\u2013Math or SAT\u2013Verbal, is the one most likely to have the 140-point increase?<br \/>Explain. SAT MATH, IT HAS THE LARGER STD DEV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) tracks a nationally representative sample\u00a0of U.S. students from eighth grade through high school and college. Research published in\u00a0Chance (Winter 2001) examined the Standardized Admission Test (SAT) scores of 265 NELS\u00a0students who paid a private tutor to help them improve their scores. The next table summarizes\u00a0the changes in both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}