Question

In the past, the average teaching evaluation score in an economics department has been 3.95. The chair of the department claims that applying new outcome assessment methods has significantly improved the quality of teaching. A random sample of 144 course sections has been selected. The sample showed an average teaching evaluation score of 4.02 and a standard deviation of 0.45. You want to test whether the chairperson’s claim is legitimate. You want to test this hypothesis at 90% level of confidence. What is the p-values associated with this test?

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Answer 1