As an educational researcher, would like to know whether high school student’s perceptions about mathematical utility
As an educational researcher, would like to know whether high school student’s perceptions about mathematical utility changed between their freshman and senior year. Each respondent is asked the same series of questions about the utility of mathematics in their future during their freshman and senior year. These questions are combined to form one variable of mathematical utility; higher values indicate higher levels of mathematical utility. Using the High School Longitudinal Survey,please provide: a 1–2 APA style paragraph statement that furnishes an answer to this question, note the relevant statistics, comment on meaningfulness, and include your relevant SPSS output.
I have completed the appropriate SPSS output bu am having difficulty analyzing and providing an explanation of what the implications of social change might be.
| Paired Samples Statistics | |||||
| Mean | N | Std. Deviation | Std. Error Mean | ||
| Pair 1 | T1 Scale of student’s mathematics utility | -.0096 | 16021 | .99040 | .00782 |
| T2 Scale of student’s mathematics utility | .0059 | 16021 | 1.00682 | .00795 | |
| Paired Samples Correlations | ||||
| N | Correlation | Sig. | ||
| Pair 1 | T1 Scale of student’s mathematics utility & T2 Scale of student’s mathematics utility | 16021 | .285 | .000 |
| Paired Samples Test | |||||||||
| Paired Differences | t | df | Sig. (2-tailed) | ||||||
| Mean | Std. Deviation | Std. Error Mean | 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference | ||||||
| Lower | Upper | ||||||||
| Pair 1 | T1 Scale of student’s mathematics utility – T2 Scale of student’s mathematics utility | ||||||||