What are the null and alternative hypotheses?
The College of Dentistry at the University of Florida has made a commitment to develop its entire curriculum around the use of self-paced instructional materials such as videotapes, slide tapes, and syllabi. It is hoped that each student will proceed at a pace commensurate with his or her ability and that the instructional staff will have more free time for personal consultation in student-faculty interaction.
One such instructional module was developed and tested on the first 50 students proceeding through the curriculum: The results summarizing the number of hours it took these students to complete the required modular activity are given below. Assume these measurements are representative of all students that eventually complete the self-paced modular activity.
Summary Statistic:
Mean: 15.96
Std Dev: 8.4996038
Std Err Mean: 1.2020255
Upper 95% Mean: 18.375561
Lower 95% Mean: 13.544439
The College of Dentistry understands that the students have busy lives. Some may be married with children and have to work to pay for their education. Is there enough evidence that, on average, students can complete the modular activity within a day? Perform a hypothesis test using a significance level of 0.05.