For this assignment, you will submit a first draft of your Methods and Results sections. Use the critical elements from the Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric as subheadings to reduce the possibility of missing an element.
Now that you have completed your data collection, be sure to revise your Methods section so it accurately reflects the participants, materials, and methodological procedures your study uses.
In your Results section, first describe how you reduced your raw data for analysis (that is, how your questionnaires were summed or averaged to get a composite score to analyze). Your results section should also include a table of the relevant descriiptive statistics, along with a narrative explanation of the descriiptive statistics. You will need to then describe the statistical test that you chose to run and explain the findings for the test. Be sure to follow APA manuscriipt standards when writing this section. Please refer to Chapters 2, 3, 5, and 7 of your APA manual for further instructions on how best to write a Methods and a Results section.
-Methods
Outline the study participants. How many participants were there, and how were they recruited?
Describe the materials (surveys, etc.) you created for the study and how they specifically address the research question. Also, consider how the materials appropriately consider the participants.
Describe the methodological procedures used to collect the data. How were the materials used to collect the data?
-Results
Describe how your raw data was reduced for statistical analysis, clearly detailing each step.
Create a table outlining the descriiptive statistics for your key variables.
Describe the statistical test you selected, and explain why this test is the most appropriate for analyzing your data compared to other tests you could have used (including why other tests were inappropriate for analyzing the data).
Communicate your research findings in a professional way, as outlined by the American Psychological Association’s study standards.
