Exam 8: Experiments for Evaluation Research

You are conducting experimental evaluation research on people's sense of safety and danger before and after a gun control law goes into effect. Write a research question for this research project.

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

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

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

You are conducting experimental evaluation research on the effect of budget cuts on quality of teaching. Write a research question for this research project.

What steps would you take to prepare for data collection?

What steps will you need to take to protect your participants?

Identify the independent and dependent variables in your hypotheses.

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? 

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?

Because it is based on positivist methodology, experimental research must be ______.

What steps will you need to take to protect your participants?

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

Write four hypotheses for this research question.

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

What is quality control? List three ways that you could ensure consistent quality in your data collection.

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

What steps will you need to take to protect your participants?

The program you are evaluating is time-consuming, and so people keep dropping out of your treatment group because they are overwhelmed by the time commitment. This is an example of ______.

How would you clean your data?