College tennis recruiting with a team Web site. Refer to The Sport Journal (Winter 2004) study comparing the attitudes of Division I, Division II, and Division III college tennis coaches towards team Web sites as recruiting tools, presented in Exercise 10.29 (p. 494). The mean responses (measured on a seven-point scale) to the statement “The Prospective Student-Athlete Form on the Web site contributes very little to the recruiting process” are listed and ranked in the accompanying table. The results were obtained with the use of a multiple-comparison procedure with an experiment wise error rate of .05. Interpret the results practically.

Exercise 10.29

College tennis recruiting with a team Web site. Most university athletic programs have a Web site with information on individual sports and a Prospective Student Athlete Form that allows high school athletes to submit information about their academic and sports achievements directly to the college coach. The Sport Journal (Winter 2004) published a study of how important team Web sites are to the recruitment of college tennis players. A survey was conducted of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tennis coaches, of which 53 were from Division I schools, 20 were from Division II schools, and 53 were from Division III schools. Coaches were asked to respond to a series of statements, including “The Prospective Student Athlete Form on the Web site contributes very little to the recruiting process.” Responses were measured on a seven-point scale (where 1 = strongly disagree and 7 = strongly agree). In order to compare the mean responses of tennis coaches from the three NCAA divisions, the data were analyzed with a completely randomized ANOVA design.

a. Identify the experimental unit, the dependent (response) variable, the factor, and the treatments in this study.

b. Give the null and alternative hypothesis for the ANOVA F-test.

c. The observed significance level of the test was found to be p-value