Research Design Worksheet - University of Central Arkansas



Research Design Worksheet

(Please type responses)

Names of members of your research team:

Title of research project:

Research hypothesis:

Description of project methodology:

Identify the type of research design:

_____ true experiment

_____ independent samples

_____ correlated samples

_____ mixed design

_____ quasi-experiment

_____ ex post facto study

_____ single-subject design

_____ correlational design

_____ naturalistic observation

_____ case study

_____ questionnaire/survey/interview

Identify what you consider to be the primary ethical issue in your study and explain why it is an issue:

If your project is a true experiment:

Identify the independent variable(s) in the study:

Identify the dependent variable(s) in the study:

Identify the scale of measurement (nominal; ordinal; interval; ratio) for each of the variables in your study:

Identify the control techniques that your team will use to reduce the influence of extraneous variables (confounding variables and nuisance variables):

Identify what you consider to be the primary threat to external validity in this study and explain why it is a threat:

Identify the type of inferential statistics most appropriate for your data analysis (to answer your research question):

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