Class Week 8

Interval Estimation

Think/pair/share:

• What is the fundamental difference between hypothesis testing and estimation?

• What is the logic behind constructing a confidence interval?

Discussion

What are the essential things students need to understand about confidence intervals?

Assignment

Write an open-ended free response question that asks students about confidence intervals and construct a rubric for your question. - Construct the question in such a way that they need to address the essentials of confidence intervals - make sure your rubric assigns points to those key concepts Post the question and rubric to the Canvas discussion board.

Preparation

For next week: Read the following two articles

- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00223

- https://doi.org/10.2307/2291263

And come prepared to discuss them during class