Question: A job workshop is trying to improve its program. A pilot study was conducted. Group 1 received Career Exploration course. Group 2 received Resource Room

A job workshop is trying to improve its program. A pilot study was conducted. Group 1 received Career Exploration course. Group 2 received Resource Room utilization.

The hypothesis is that Career Exploration courses would be more effective in helping participants find jobs. The effectiveness is measured in the number of days between the end of the program and the day of the signed offer letter.

Group 1 (N=40) Focus Group - Intervention 1

# of days to receive job offer

35, 60, 36, 59, 46, 38, 19, 29, 43, 27, 38, 98, 40, 52, 64, 45, 30, 39, 50, 41

31, 22, 40, 37, 75, 33, 43, 50, 28, 35, 61, 45, 29, 15, 30, 32, 19, 81, 20, 11

Group 2 (N=40) Control Group - Intervention 2

12, 27, 38, 25, 40, 32, 35, 16, 22, 30, 19, 36, 38, 20, 43, 70, 28, 34, 46, 55

42, 48, 93, 58, 29, 39, 70, 65, 56, 40, 43, 61, 52, 67, 52, 22, 17, 49, 33, 105

What T-Test is most appropriate to compare the two groups on the number of days to receive job offer letters. Why? What should alpha and the confidence level be? Please provide all related the results.

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