Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to calculate the margin of error in a statistical sample.
- how to express the confidence interval for a statistical sample or experiment.
- how to perform a significance test.
- how to use the results of the significance test to either support or refute a claim.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Calculate the margin of error.
- Determine a confidence interval.
- perform a significance test.
- Use the results of the significance test to support or refute the null hypothesis.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- hypothesis testing is used to evaluate claims about a population.
- a confidence interval helps to determine the size of a sample needed to provide accurate calculations.
Vocabulary
- Point Estimator
- Margin of Error
- Confidence Interval
- Significance Test
- Null Hypothesis
- Hypothesis
