1. An admissions counselor wants to find out if TOEFL® scores are predictive of college GPA for international students at a local university. The TOEFL® is the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which the school requires for admission, and students can score from 0 to 120, with 120 being a perfect score. The data from the latest freshmen class are in the table below. Is the TOEFL® score predictive of college GPA? Choose the correct test to analyze this question, set up the SPSS file, and run the analysis. Follow the directions under the table below.
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TOEFL® Score
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College GPA
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94
80
112
72
93
101
76
90
83
68
113
74
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3.4
2.7
3.5
3.1
3.2
3.6
2.8
2.9
3.1
2.4
3.6
2.7
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a) Paste the appropriate SPSS output.
b) Paste the appropriate SPSS graph.
c) Write a current APA-style Results section based on your analyses. All homework Results sectionsmust follow the example given in the SPSS tutorials and the Course Content document "Writing Results of Statistical Tests in Current APA Format" (note: you do not have to refer to a figure). Remember to include a decision about the null hypothesis.