Your project for this course is to select one study that has been published in the (Grant County Wash-ington) real world.You can choose any study you wish; however, on the next page, you will find a list with a selection of studies that students have used in the past. Most studies here have both an article and study link. Often times, the study is easier to understand when reading through the article; however, looking through the actual study can provide some important details.
Once you’ve selected your study, you are to respond to each question found in this assignment (and listed below). All of your responses must be written in complete sentences and thoroughly explained.
The list below contains the questions that you will be tasked with answering about your chosen study.
Keep in mind, each response must be thoroughly explained. Be sure to justify each and every response.
What is the main research question?
What type of study is this?
Who is the target population for this study?
What are the explanatory and response variables? What types of variables are they?
Was random sampling used? If so, what kind of random sampling was used?
Was there random assignment into treatment groups? What were the treatment groups?
Based on the study design, is it possible to make causal conclusions?
Based on the study design, is it possible to generalize to a larger population?
What statistical methods are used/reported?
What conclusions are made from the study?
As a researcher, what would you do differently in this study? and why?
How has taking this class affected they way you interpret the results of the study?
If, after a thorough search, you cannot find the necessary information to answer a question, you have two options:
do your best to guess what the researchers did
describe what you think the researchers should have done
I Left an Example in the that file.
