Please make sure to answer as fully and completely as you possibly can. Ideally, you should be able to integrate your answers from the following questions into the method section of your paper.
- How many people participated in the experiment?
There were 13 people participated in the experiment.
- What were the characteristics of the participants?
The participants were 9 females and 4 males (
N = 13) from a Research Methods & Design class offered through Old Dominion University[R1]. Participants received in-class credit for their participation. These participants ranged in age from 22 to 51 with a mean age of 33 (
M = XXXXXXXXXX[R2]).
- Give a detailed description of the measures used in the study (The Index of Learning Styles and The Stroop Color Test). Be sure to include a description, what they measure, example questions, any reliability/validity information, et cetera.
The Stroop Color Test was on online assessment and was used to measure selective attention, processing speed, and cognitive flexibility. For example, in a reaction time task, the name of a color (e.g., “green”, “red”, or “blue”) is printed in a color that does not represent the name (e.g., “red” printed in black ink) and the response time and accuracy is recorded. Naming the color when it does not match the word can take longer and be more difficult. [R3]
The Index of Learning Styles was also taken online and used to measure the student’s preference of learning style on several dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, sequential/global). [R4]Both tests are considered reliable and valid (citations?).
- Outline the procedures of the experiment. Include details.
Students were handed an “informed consent” document to read and sign. They were then handed a sheet to record the assessment scores on by the teacher.[R5] Next, they asked to open the hand out online with the link to the assessments and take them on the computers in the order listed on the recording handout.[R6] Once the students were done with the assessments, they recorded their scores on the sheet given and placed the sheet in a brown envelope located on the teachers desk. [R7] [R1]Remember that you don’t want to be so specific…you could say a large southeastern university or something to that extent. [R2]You can round…generally it’s best to keep it to 3 places after the decimal place. [R3]It’s a good start, but you need to make sure that someone who has never completed the stroop color test would understand what the test was about. [R4]You did not provide any example questions… [R5]Work on this [R6]Edit – also, it is not really clear what you mean… [R7]Again you need to edit. You also did not include information about how long it took, the debrief, or counter-balancing. Make sure you include those in your Method Section.