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Reply to forum 6 Reply to Fekade Tesfaye In D6.1, Fekade explained the assumption of Pearson correlation and output 9.2. According to the explanation of Pearson correlation (.34) with a significance level (sig.) of .003 and Spearman’s rho (.32) with a significance level of .006, Fekade indicated the positive relationship between two variables of mother’s education and match achievement. I agree with this. Fekade pointed out that Spearman correlation is based on ranking the scores and hence should be used with ordinal data. In question 9.2, the distribution of variable mother’s education is lightly skewed (skewness =1.124) (Morgan et al., 2013, p.59), which is a violation of the assumption of Pearson correlation. Thus, in this case, only Spearman’s rho should be reported. In this case of two variables, Spearman’s rho is similar to Pearson’s r. In D 6.2, Fekade interpreted output of 9.3 and concluded that the students who have highly scholastic aptitude test-math tend to have higher math achievement test scores and vice versa. I agree with his interpretation. Fekade also explained the adjusted regression coefficient as