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Time to Practice Week Two
Complete Parts A, B, and C below.

Part A
1. Why is a z score a standard score? Why can standard scores be used to compare scores from
different distributions?
2. For the following set of scores, fill in the cells. The mean is 74.13 and the standard deviation is 9.98.
Raw score

Z score

68.0

1.6

82.0

1.8

69.0

0.5

85.0

1.7

72.0

3. Questions 3a through 3d are based on a distribution of scores with

= 6.38. Draw a small picture to help you see what is required.
a.
b.
c.
d.

and the standard deviation

What is the probability of a score falling between a raw score of 70 and 80?
What is the probability of a score falling above a raw score of 80?
What is the probability of a score falling between a raw score of 81 and 83?
What is the probability of a score falling below a raw score of 63?

4. Jake needs to score in the top 10% in order to earn a physical fitness certificate. The class mean is
78 and the standard deviation is 5.5. What raw score does he need?
From Salkind (2011). Copyright 2012 SAGE. All Rights Reserved. Adapted with permission.

Part B
The questions in Part B require that you access data from Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This
data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.
The data sets for problems 5 and 6 can be found through the Pearson Materials in the Student Textbook
Resource Access link, listed under Academic Resources. The data is listed in the data file named

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Lesson 20 Exercise File 1. Answer Exercises 5 and 6 based on the following research problem:
Ann wants to describe the demographic characteristics of a sample of 25 individuals who completed a
large-scale survey. She has demographic data on the participants gender (two categories),
educational level (four categories), marital status (three categories), and community population size
(eight categories).
5. Using IBM SPSS software, conduct a frequency analysis on the gender and marital status
variables. From the output, identify the following:
a. Percent of men
b. Mode for marital status
c. Frequency of divorced people in the sample
6. Using IBM SPSS software, create a frequency table to summarize the data on the educational level
variable. Copy and paste the output from IBM SPSS into this worksheet.
7. The data set for this problem can be found through the Pearson Materials in the Student Textbook
Resource Access link, listed under Academic Resources. The data is listed in the data file named
Lesson 21 Exercise File 1. David collects anxiety scores from 15 college students who visit the
university health center during finals week. Compute descriptive statistics on the anxiety scores. From
the output, identify the following:
a.
b.
c.
d.

Skewness
Mean
Standard deviation
Kurtosis

From Green & Salkind (2011). Copyright 2012 Pearson Education. All Rights Reserved. Adapted with
permission.

Part C
Complete the questions below. Be specific and provide examples when relevant.
Cite any sources consistent with APA guidelines.
Question

Answer

What is the relationship between reliability and

validity? How can a test be reliable but not
valid? Can a test be valid but not reliable? Why
or why not?
How does understanding probability help you
understand statistics?
How could you use standard scores and the
standard distribution to compare the reading
scores of two students receiving special reading
resource help and one student in a standard
classroom who does not get special help?
In a standard normal distribution: What does a
z score of 1 represent? What percent of cases

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fall between the mean and one standard

deviation above the mean? What percent fall
between the mean and 1 to +1 standard
deviations from the mean? What percent of
scores will fall between 3 and +3 standard
deviations under the normal curve?

References

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