Acme Industries has implemented a new website for employees to enter their weekly hours (e.g., start time, end time, sick hours, vacation hours, holiday hours, family leave hours). Upon clicking Save, the system checks the validity of the entries and points the user to correct any errors or omissions before saving the data. To evaluate the efficiency of this new website, the system journals the access time (in seconds) indicating how long it took for each employee to file their daily entries. A manager will assess the mean access times starting at the initial launch of the website (Week1), and continue to gather data for the next week (Week2).
Data set: Ch 08 – Exercise 01B.sav
Codebook
Variable: ID
Definition: Employee ID
Type: Alphanumeric
Variable: Week1
Definition: Average time (in seconds) required to fill out webpage for first week
Type: Continuous
Variable: Week2
Definition: Average time (in seconds) required to fill out webpage for second week
Type: Continuous
a. Write the hypotheses.
b. Run the criteria of the pretest checklist (normality for posttest– pretest) and discuss your findings.
c. Run the paired t test and document your findings (means and Sig. [p value], hypothesis resolution).
d. Write an abstract under 200 words detailing a summary of the study, the paired t test results, hypothesis resolution, and implications of your findings.