Psychology 2011 1997 Lab Week 4 Summary

These pages are demonstration pages of mixed mode deli very for an on-campus course. The curriculum and course structure has changed substantially for 1998, but these pages have been retained here as an example of a particular use of the Web in teaching.

CAS DATA WORKSHOP

Prior to attending the lab it was expected that class members would have considered/completed the following;
Generated plausible hypotheses from their reading of at least 2-3 relevant articles/abstracts and therefore chosen which IVs and DVs you were investigating. In doing this you should then have determined or considered which analysis would be appropriate in examining your hypotheses.

Hopefully you were then able to conduct any statistical (eg. means, SDS, STE, t-tests) analyses required and (maybe?) even graphed the results to be presented in the report.

Short Report Guidelines

The information below replicates the information on the short report on the PSY2011 Lab Program Assessment web page.

Remember a short report is not a condensed version of a long report but it should include the following;

A brief Introduction section citing a couple of the major findings in the area under investigation leading to,
the Aims of the study and establishing the experimental Hypotheses (approx. 250 words)
A very concise, bare bones method section (approx. 100 words) should precede the presentation of a Results section which summarises the trends of the data in either table or figure form, accompanied by a good description (approx. 250 words)
Statistical analysis is not required but any data presented must be described in relation to your hypotheses, any substantive comments must be backed by statistical evidence. Conditions can only differ significantly if we have conducted the appropriate statistical test to provide evidence for such a claim.
A formal discussion section is not required. However a summary of the findings should be provided and detailed suggestions for further research in the area provided (approx. 150 words). Please note one of our pet dislikes by 2011 markers is a final sentence of any written work that goes something like this "Future research is neede in this area (FULL STOP!!)". Don't do it!

The suggested length of report is 750 words maximum. The above word count guidleines are suggestions not rules, and it may be that for example you combine the Results/Summary sections? The report is due in Monday, April 14th, 1997, 12:00 noon (remember this floating deadline) at the General Office. Remember to cover the report with an assignment cover sheet.

There will be time this week in labs to go over any queries on the format, structure and composition of the short report.

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