An Educational Testing Service Designed an Achievement Test So That

Essay

An educational testing service designed an achievement test so that the range in student scores would be greater than 300 points. To determine whether the objective was achieved, the testing service gave the test to a random sample of 41 students and found that the sample mean and variance were 687 and 2605, respectively. Specify the null and alternative hypotheses for determining whether the test achieved the desired dispersion in scores. Assume that range = 6σ.