Academic Advising: In 2014, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement reported that 32% of the students surveyed rarely or never use academic advising services. Since then, a local California community college that participated in the survey hired several new academic counselors and focused on outreach efforts to increase student awareness of available services. The counseling office staff then conducted a survey of 500 randomly selected students at the college, and 26% of those students said that they rarely or never use academic advising services. Campus administrators want to know whether the hiring and outreach efforts increased student use of academic advising. Which alternative hypothesis is appropriate?

The alternative hypothesis is that the proportion of the students surveyed that rarely or never use academic advising services is less than 32% or 0.32. That is the students use of academic advising has increased.

Ha: p < 0.32

Step-by-step explanation:

The null hypothesis (H0) tries to show that no significant variation exists between variables or that a single variable is no different than its mean. While an alternative Hypothesis (Ha) attempt to prove that a new theory is true rather than the old one. That a variable is significantly different from the mean.

For the case above;

Let p represent the proportion of the students surveyed that rarely or never use academic advising services.

The null hypothesis is that the proportion of the students surveyed that rarely or never use academic advising services is equal to 32% or 0.32.

H0: p = 0.32

The alternative hypothesis is that the proportion of the students surveyed that rarely or never use academic advising services is less than 32% or 0.32. That is the students use of academic advising has increased.

Ha: p < 0.32