INTRODUCTION: Outline APA Title Page Abstract No Bibliography needed No index needed Paragraph 1: Create Interest in Your Topic EXPLAIN Why is your topic interesting? Why is it important to study? Give important background information. Describe your problem and state it in such a way that it seems like an important problem to solve. Cite facts and statistics (be sure to use APA style in your citations).
Paragraph 2: Show your Motivation for your specific study and its general design
EXPLAIN Why do you want to do your study? Why did you focus on the specific variable(s) of interest, and how will your study further inform you about your topic area? Why did you choose your participants? What is the purpose of your study? Paragraph 3: Hypotheses and Predictions
IDENTIFY SPECIFICALLY State your research question and specific hypotheses for our class project topics. What do you expect to see in your data? (Be specific, how will participants answer the survey questions?) Please do not forget the literature review. Methods 2-3 pages long 1) Design
a. Describe and explain your design. Why did you choose that design? Is it experimental, non-experimental, comparative, correlational? Give as many details as you can. Refer to your textbook for help with the benefits of each kind of design. Be sure to cite your book in text if you use it as a reference.
b. List all variables of interest to your study. Identify your independent variable (IV) and/or dependent variable(s) (DV). Give your variables clear, meaningful names so that your readers are not confused. Write out the operational definitions for each variable you are measuring.
2) Participants
a. Demographics: Numbers to include (see the demographic data from our survey posted to canvas to find values) be sure to include: Total Sample Size Gender – counts and percentages for each group Age range – lowest to highest number, mean/average age and SD for age Ethnicity/Race – percentages & counts for each group Other educational demographic variables: GPA, student type, etc. (anything else related to describing your sample)
b. Where were the participants recruited? How were they recruited? c. What sampling method was used? d. What demographic variables were measured?
3) Instrumentation a. What survey did you use? What does it look like – give details such as the number of questions, response scale, instructions, etc.
b. How was it developed? Give details on how your questions were developed. c. What steps did you follow to increase validity and reliability?
4) Procedure a. Include a step-by-step listing in chronological order of what participants will do/did during the study. Be as detailed as possible so your readers will know exactly how you collected your data. (Note that this is the participant procedure section, do not write about what your group did as researchers). Please write an APA style two-paragraph results section for our class project. Descriptive Statistics
(Paragraph 1): -Describe your sample, including sample size and demographics related to your study. -Report descriptive statistics relevant to your RQ and hypothesis main variables. Why are you reporting these? Give reasons. -Use the handout template to write out the descriptive results in APA style. See sample papers and readings, writing about statistics can be difficult, be sure to look at the examples. Inferential Statistics (Paragraph 2): – Which inferential statistics are you reporting (correlation or t-test, or both)?
Why? -Relate your analysis to your RQ, how does that analysis help you answer your RQ? -What did you find? A significant difference or correlation? Report your findings in APA style. See examples below. -Use the handout template to write out the inferential statistics results in APA style. Table: -Include 1 small APA style table (no inside lines!) showing your results from PSPP. Do not just copy-paste your PSPP tables in, remove all extra information, and make sure your tables are easy to read. Include only what you would report. Please see APA style guidelines for tables – there are no inside lines in the tables.
‘Discussion needs to be at least 2 pages Design: A. Correlational Design– testing for a relationship between two variables 3) Variables & Operational Definitions: Which variables will you measure based on your design? Experience in Online Courses – The overall measure of a student’s experience with their online courses. A high number would be a very good experience for a student and a low number would be a very bad experience in their online courses. & Overall Stress – The overall measure of a student’s Stress. A high number would be more/lots of stress and a low number would be less/little stress. 4) Research Question: Is there a negative relationship between experience in online courses and overall stress? 5) Hypothesis: It is hypothesized that there will be a significant increase in students overall stress levels as the quality of a student’s experience in their online courses decreases. Specifically, it is expected that students that have a bad experience in their online courses will have higher stress levels and those that have a good experience will have lower stress levels. We sent our a survey to our college students throughout campus via the web. ”””””””””’
The participants would be GWC students I will provide you with all the data needed for this paper. Please use this description and the attachments to complete this paper. In the attachments you will find an example paper, demographic data, results data, descriptive stats you will find the question I choose highlighted in yellow, correlations, the survey itself which is the codebook attachment and the questions I choose are highlighted in yellow, and a DA summary which has what questions I choose for to see the correlations. A sample of a correlations table and ect. You do not need to use all 6 sources just up to if needed.
