Good Morning

         I know you are busy with your critique and the qualitative part of the midterm test.

        Some of you are reporting test anxiety even in the case of my class.

         I can only imagine the level of anxiety in classes in which tests are the only assessment instrument for measuring students’ "ability".  Please, think what can be done for anxiety-reduction in your project.

Next week:

Plan for the Next Meeting

•    I will present the second part of statistics – Lesson 5 in Vista.

•    Lab 3 - Methods (The lab is designed to provide information for the corresponding part of your final project. In the final project, the method part is 50 points.)

•   Chapter 8 and 10 will be presented as it was scheduled. I will present chapter 9.

Plan for Lab 3

We will work together to make sure that the method part of your final project will be well done. According to the textbook, the rubric for the method part of your final project is:

Method

Population

1.      Is the population fully described?

2.      Did the researcher used the entire population, or was there a sample used for the study?

3.      If the sample is used, is the sampling method described?

4.      Is the sample biased?

5.      Is the sample representative of the population?

Variables

1.      Are variables defined?

2.      What types of variables are involved in the study – simple, constructs, dependent, independent, etc?

3.      Are variables related to the hypothesis?

4.      List all variables of the study.

Measurement Instruments

1.      Are the instruments employed to gather the data described with sufficient clarity to permit another researcher to replicate the study?

2.      Is evidence presented for the validity and reliability of the instruments used in the study?

Design

1.      Was there a pilot study conducted? If so, what were the results?

2.      Are there any obvious weaknesses in the overall design of the study?

3.      Is design described in such a way that every researcher to be able to replicate the study?

4.      Briefly describe the design of the study.

Procedure

1.      Are the steps of conducting the study stated?

2.      Are there conflicts in the procedure that you can identify? Such as, what if the subjects of the study refused to respond to survey questions or get sick?

3.      What would you improve if you have to replicate the study?

4.      Are statistical methods used and explained?

5.      Are statistical methods descriptive, inferential or both?