You are a researcher who studies children’s behavior in schools – your goal is to decrease problem behaviors (fighting, disrupting class, disrespecting the teacher, etc) so students can learn better. You think that part of the problem is that students aren’t getting enough one-on-one attention, so you set out to see if placing a teacher’s aide in each classroom makes a difference in the number of problem behaviors. You hypothesize that more adults in the classroom will lead to better behaved classrooms. You recruit a total of 20 teachers. You split the teachers into two groups of 10 teachers each. For 10 of the teachers, you place a teacher’s aide in the classroom to help the teacher. The other 10 teachers do not get a teacher’s aide during this stage of the study. For a month, you have all 20 teachers in each classroom record every time a problem behavior occurred. At the end of the month, you have the teachers report to you the tally of the number of problem behaviors that occurred that month. 1. Enter and label the data appropriately in SPSS 2. Choose the appropriate statistical test that should be used to analyze the data and explain why you chose this particular test  3. Analyze the data using the test specified  4. Describe the results    5. Make a conclusion about whether the study’s hypothesis was supported.

The Experiment:

You are a researcher who studies children’s behavior in schools – your goal is to decrease problem behaviors (fighting, disrupting class, disrespecting the teacher, etc) so students can learn better. You think that part of the problem is that students aren’t getting enough one-on-one attention, so you set out to see if placing a teacher’s aide in each classroom makes a difference in the number of problem behaviors. You hypothesize that more adults in the classroom will lead to better behaved classrooms.

You recruit a total of 20 teachers. You split the teachers into two groups of 10 teachers each. For 10 of the teachers, you place a teacher’s aide in the classroom to help the teacher. The other 10 teachers do not get a teacher’s aide during this stage of the study. For a month, you have all 20 teachers in each classroom record every time a problem behavior occurred. At the end of the month, you have the teachers report to you the tally of the number of problem behaviors that occurred that month.

1. Enter and label the data appropriately in SPSS

2. Choose the appropriate statistical test that should be used to analyze the data and explain why you chose this particular test

 3. Analyze the data using the test specified

 4. Describe the results  

 5. Make a conclusion about whether the study’s hypothesis was supported.