Exam 8: Experiments for Evaluation Research

How would you clean your data?

Identify the independent and dependent variables in your hypotheses.

You are conducting experimental research in order to evaluate the effectiveness of a new sexual harassment training program at a small firm. Which would be the most appropriate way to choose your subjects?

How will you draw a sample of participants for your research? Why?

Will informed consent be needed for your study? Why or why not?

What is contamination, and how would you try to minimize it?

You are conducting experimental evaluation research on bullying in secondary schools before and after an anti-bullying campaign. You are interested in the campaign's effectiveness. Write a research question for this research project.

Will informed consent be needed for your study? Why or why not?

Internal validity means ______.

Write four hypotheses for this research question.

Experiments are used to test ______.

Which is the most appropriate research question for experimental evaluation research?

How would you try to diminish the attrition rate? How will it affect your results if the rate is high?

Even if you randomly assign subjects to groups, which of the following may result in you ending up with groups that are not comparable?

What other ethical issues might be likely to arise in conducting this research?

Which type of study design will you use for this research? How will it differ from a classical experiment and why? How will this affect the validity of your results?

Evaluate the external validity of your study.

Conceptualize one dependent variable from your hypotheses. How will you measure this variable, and how will you collect the data that will measure it?

You are conducting research on the effects of a grief support group on adults' coping with the death of a loved one. You decide that you will measure ability to cope by observing behavior in the group, by asking the research subjects to keep a log rating their emotions at the end of each day, and by asking them survey items about coping strategies, activities engaged in, and other measures of coping. What component of research is this?

How will you assign subjects to research groups? Why? What are the pros and cons of this approach?