Exercise #6

A college is concerned that recent cohorts of students have less motivation to succeed than earlier cohorts of students. To assess their concern, they gave a standardized measure of achievement orientation to a random sample of college freshmen and sophomores. They compared their achievement orientation scores to published norms for U.S. college students (m = 16.37; s =4.62)

Choose the statistic you would use to test your hypothesis.

 

One-Sample Z Test
One-Sample t-Test
t-test for Dependent Means
t-test for Independent Means