Answer to Question #44714 in Statistics and Probability for Joe

Question

24. Rosalie Friend (2001), and educational psychologist, compared three methods of teaching writing. Students were randomly assigned to three different experimental conditions involving different methods of writing a summary. At the end of the two days of instructions, participants wrote a summary. One of the ways it was scored was the percentage of specific details of information it included from the original material. Here is a selection from her article describing one of the findings:

The effect of summarization method on inclusion of important information was significant F(2, 144) = 4.1032, p < .019. The mean scores (with standard deviations in parantheses) were as follows: Argument Repetition, 59.6% (17.9); Generalization, 59.8% (15.2); and Self-Reflection, 50.2% (18.0). (p.14)

a. Explain these results to a person who has never had a course in statistics.

Students were randomly selected to participate in writing a summary in a t test for dependent means which means that the researcher takes sample control group with 3 separate experiemental conditions. The mean scores of argument repetition, generaliziation, and self-reflection

b. Using the information in the preceding description, figure the effect size for the study.