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  • Review the Learning Resources related to probability, sampling distributions, and confidence intervals.
  • For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Confidence Intervals and the Skill Builder: Sampling Distributions, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.
  • Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you chose) from Week 2.
  • Choose an appropriate variable from Weeks 2 and 3 and calculate a confidence interval in SPSS.

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Write analysis of your results and include a copy and paste of the appropriate visual display of the data into your document.

Based on the results of your data in this confidence interval Assignment, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be.

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Running head: ASSIGNMENT-HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY - HS Longitudinal Study Jill Michel-Jean Date: 3/6/2018 1 ASSIGNMENT- HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY Assignment-Hs Longitudinal Study The study mainly focuses on finding out the trend of move of youngsters from secondary to post-secondary school experience as well as the time spent as labor force and then in their adulthood. In this case, the categorical variable suitable for the investigation is: ‘Teenager thinks science is helpful for regular daily existence’. The observations out of the categorical variable is rated using the 5-point Likert chart from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The continuous variable chosen for the data set is: “The number of years the high school science teacher has taught science”. Display for Continuous Variable The different displays that will be done include histogram, box plot and line graph (Frankfort-Nachmias & Leon-Guerrero, 2017). Histogram A plot of Box and Whisker 2 ASSIGNMENT- HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY Line graph 3 ASSIGNMENT- HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY 4 Analysis from Display From the plotting of the histogram, it is evident that the number of teachers increase from 1 to 8. After that point, the frequency then reduces. The drawing in the box and whisker plot of the data shows the position of the median. According to the data, the median lies between 8-50%. The drawing of the line chart shows that there is a dip in the curve right from the start of year 1 and then an increase is witnessed thereafter with point 25 being where the frequency is greatest. Display for Categorical variable Bar graph Teenager thinks science is helpful in everyday life. ASSIGNMENT- HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY 5 SPSS Output: (Wagner III, 2016). Analysis From the visual displays that have been shown, most of the teenagers tend to agree that science is important in their everyday life. From the bar graph, it is estimated that 10000 students acknowledge the usefulness of science in everyday life. Those who strongly agree are approximately 4000. From the analysis, more of the students tend to value science courses as they find them of great value. Implications for Social Change Longitudinal study often entails having repeated observations for a relatively longer time span. From the results that are obtained in this study, students can get themselves ASSIGNMENT- HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY changing perspective about life and courses to undertake. The students will have to embrace more of innovative and technology based subjects. It is obvious that science teachers play a critical role in the life of students hence the notion that most of them value science subjects (Osborne, Simon & Collins, 2003). Having a longitudinal study enables one to monitor progress of a student over time and in this case for a period spanning 20 years. 6 ASSIGNMENT- HS LONGITUDINAL STUDY 7 References Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Leon-Guerrero, A. (2017). Social statistics for a diverse society. Sage Publications. Osborne, J., Simon, S., & Collins, S. (2003). Attitudes towards science: A review of the literature and its implications. International journal of science education, 25(9), 10491079. Wagner III, W. E. (2016). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics. Sage Publications.
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