DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONSThe student will complete 8 short-answer discussions in this course and 1 long-answerIntegrating Faith and Learning discussion. In the thread for each short-answer discussion thestudent will post short answers to the prompted questions. The answers must demonstratecourse-related knowledge and support their assertions with scholarly citations in the latest APAformat. Minimum word count for all short answers cumulatively is 200 words. The minimumword count for Integrating Faith and Learning discussion is 600 words. For each thread thestudent must include a title block with your name, class title, date, and the discussion forumnumber; write the question number and the question title as a level one heading (e.g. D1.1Variables) and then provide your response; use Level Two headings for multi part questions (e.g.D1.1 & D1.1.a, D1.1.b, etc.), and include a reference section.The student must then post 1 reply to another student’s post. The reply must summarize thestudent’s findings and indicate areas of agreement, disagreement, and improvement. It must besupported with scholarly citations in the latest APA format and corresponding list of references.The minimum word count for Integrating Faith and Learning discussion reply is 250 words.
Discussion Thread: Descriptive Statistics, Ordinal Scale and Dichotomous Variable
Respond to the following short answer questions from Chapter 4 in the Morgan, Leech, Gloeckner, & Barrett textbook:
D3.4.1 Using Outputs 4.1a and 4.1b: (a) What is the mean visualization test score? (b) What is the skewness statistic for math achievement test? What does this tell us? (c) What is the minimum score for mosaic pattern test? How can that be?
D3.4.2.Using Output 4.1b: (a) For which variables that we called scale, is the skewness statistic more than 1.00 or less than –1.00? (b) Why is the answer important? (c) Does this agree with the boxplot for Output 4.2? Explain.
D3.4.3.Using Output 4.2b: (a) How many participants have missing data? (b) What percent of students have a valid (non-missing) motivation scale or competence scale score? (c) Can you tell from Outputs 4.1 and 4.2b how many are missing both motivation scale and competence scale scores? Explain.
D3.4.4.Using Output 4.4: (a) Can you interpret the means? Explain. (b) How many participants are there altogether? (c) How many have complete data (nothing missing)? (d) What percent are in the fast track? (e) What percent took algebra 1 in h.s.?
D3.4.5.Using Output 4.5: (a) 9.6% of what group are Asian-Americans? (b) What percent of students have visualization 2 scores of 6? (c) What percent had such scores of 6 or less?
