Installing Required Packages

install.packages(“readxl”) install.packages(“ggpubr”) install.packages(“dplyr”) install.packages(“effectsize”) install.packages(“effsize”)

Opening the Installed Packages:

library(readxl)
library(ggpubr)
## Loading required package: ggplot2
library(dplyr)
## 
## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
## 
##     filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
## 
##     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(effectsize)
library(effsize)

Loading DataSet:

Dataset6.1 <- read_excel("C:/Users/datta/Downloads/Dataset6.1.xlsx")

Calculating Descriptive Statistics for Each Group

Dataset6.1 %>%
  group_by(Group) %>%
  summarise(
    Mean = mean(Exam_Score, na.rm = TRUE),
    Median = median(Exam_Score, na.rm = TRUE),
    SD = sd(Exam_Score, na.rm = TRUE),
    N = n()
  )
## # A tibble: 2 Ă— 5
##   Group        Mean Median    SD     N
##   <chr>       <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl> <int>
## 1 No Tutoring  71.9   71.5  7.68    40
## 2 Tutoring     78.4   78.7  7.18    40

Creating Histograms for Each Group Tutoring Group

hist(Dataset6.1$Exam_Score[Dataset6.1$Group == "Tutoring"],
     main = "Histogram of No Tutoring Scores",
     xlab = "Value",
     ylab = "Frequency",
     col = "red",
     border = "black",
     breaks = 10)

No Tutoring Group

hist(Dataset6.1$Exam_Score[Dataset6.1$Group == "No Tutoring"],
     main = "Histogram of Tutoring Scores",
     xlab = "Value",
     ylab = "Frequency",
     col = "red",
     border = "black",
     breaks = 10)

Creating Boxplots for Each Group

ggboxplot(Dataset6.1,
          x = "Group",
          y = "Exam_Score",
          color = "Group",
          palette = "jco",
          add = "jitter")

Shapiro-Wilk Test of Normality

shapiro.test(Dataset6.1$Exam_Score[Dataset6.1$Group == "No Tutoring"])
## 
##  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
## 
## data:  Dataset6.1$Exam_Score[Dataset6.1$Group == "No Tutoring"]
## W = 0.98791, p-value = 0.9398
shapiro.test(Dataset6.1$Exam_Score[Dataset6.1$Group == "Tutoring"])
## 
##  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
## 
## data:  Dataset6.1$Exam_Score[Dataset6.1$Group == "Tutoring"]
## W = 0.98859, p-value = 0.953

For both groups (No Tutoring and Tutoring) the p-value is greater than .05, indicating both data is normal. So we will continue with Independent T-Test to conduct Inferential Test.

Conducting Inferential Test (Independent T-Test)

t.test(Exam_Score ~ Group,  data = Dataset6.1,  var.equal = TRUE)
## 
##  Two Sample t-test
## 
## data:  Exam_Score by Group
## t = -3.8593, df = 78, p-value = 0.000233
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means between group No Tutoring and group Tutoring is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  -9.724543 -3.105845
## sample estimates:
## mean in group No Tutoring    mean in group Tutoring 
##                  71.94627                  78.36147

The results are significant because the p-value is smaller than.05. We can calculate effect size.

Calculating the Effect Size

cohens_d_result <- cohens_d(Exam_Score ~ Group, data = Dataset6.1)
print(cohens_d_result)
## Cohen's d |         95% CI
## --------------------------
## -0.86     | [-1.32, -0.40]
## 
## - Estimated using pooled SD.

The effect size is -0.863, which is large in magnitude.

Reporting the results: Exam Scores for No Tutoring group (M = 71.9, SD = 7.68) was significantly different from Tutoring group (M = 78.4, SD = 7.18), t(78) = -3.8593, p < .001. The effect size was large (Cohen’s d = -0.863).