A Common Measure of Student Achievement, The National Assessment
of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only assessment that measures
what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects across the
nation, states, and in some urban districts. Also known as The
Nation's Report Card, NAEP has provided important information about
how students are performing academically since 1969.
NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the U.S.
Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences
(IES).
NAEP is given to a representative sample of students across the
country. Results are reported for groups of students with similar
characteristics (e.g., gender, race and ethnicity, school
location), not individual students. National results are available
for all subjects assessed by NAEP.
In the most recent year, The NAEP sample of 1077 young women had
mean quantitative score of 275. Individual NAEP scores have a
Normal distribution with standard deviation of 60. (This is
indicating that the population standard deviation σ is 60)
Find a 99% Confidence Interval for the mean quantitative scores for
young women.
Suppose that the same result occured, getting a mean quantitative
score of 275, but instead of a sample of 1077 young women, the
result came from a sample of 250 young women.
How would the confidence interval be affected?
a) Check that the normality assumptions are met. ?
b) What is the 90% confidence interval for the proportion of adult Twitter users that get at least some news on Twitter. Round to 4 decimal places.
_____ ≤ p ≤ ______
c) Interpret the confidence interval obtained.
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