Question

question 6 a gre course prep company advertises that its course can significantly raise students gre verbal reasoning scores. in order to assess the accuracy of this claim, a researcher randomly selected a sample of 30 graduating seniors from a local university, who were applying to business school. the 30 students first took the gre, without any preparation. the 30 students then took the gre again, after completing the gre prep course. the researcher then compared the performance for each student to determine whether there was improvement on the gre verbal reasoning scores from the first to second administrations. what hypothesis testing technique should the researcher use to analyze the data? a. paired t - test b. two - sample t - test c. anova d. z - test for the population mean

Explanation:

The researcher is comparing the GRE Verbal Reasoning scores of the same 30 students before and after taking the prep - course. A paired t - test is used when we have two related samples (in this case, the same group of students measured twice). A two - sample t - test is for independent samples, ANOVA is for comparing means of more than two groups, and a z - test for population mean is used when population standard deviation is known and for single sample or some specific large - sample cases. Here, the samples are related, so a paired t - test is appropriate.

Answer:

A. Paired t - test