Assume that your university offers 16 sections of Calculus 1 in the fall semester. At your university, there are four faculty members who each teach four sections of Calculus 1. All have agreed to be involved in a test to determine if a computer- based curriculum increases core understanding of the course material. Each faculty member will teach two courses with and two courses without the computer- based curriculum, and at the end of the semester all students will take the same final exam.
a. Identify any extraneous variables that may potentially bias your results. How will these potential biases be addressed?
b. List each factor in the study and determine whether it is fixed or random. Also note whether it is crossed with or nested within other factors.
c. Specify the response variable you will use.
d. Specify the units and sample size for this study.
e. List each factor-level combination and describe how you will use randomization in this study.
f. List the factors and the corresponding degrees of freedom that will occur in the ANOVA table.
g. Will this be a completely randomized, block, or split- plot design? Explain.