II. Exploration (4marks); Oxford text p495-496
Please ensure you read the class handout 'Preparing for the IA: EXPLORATION section
This handout provides a precise checklist of what to include in this section
Note Pro Tips, especially the points related to making your IA sections relevant to the study YOU replicated. If you conducted an experiment testing music's impact on memory recall, you must be specific to testing this specific variable (music, ability to hear properly, fluency with music, etc)
Please ensure you read the sample Exploration carefully. This was given to you in class.
It is a top sample, and it should provide you with a sense of academic tone you will need to establish in your writing.
This handout provides a precise checklist of what to include in this section
- Research design
- Sampling technique
- Participants
- Materials
- Procedure
- Controlled variables
Note Pro Tips, especially the points related to making your IA sections relevant to the study YOU replicated. If you conducted an experiment testing music's impact on memory recall, you must be specific to testing this specific variable (music, ability to hear properly, fluency with music, etc)
Please ensure you read the sample Exploration carefully. This was given to you in class.
It is a top sample, and it should provide you with a sense of academic tone you will need to establish in your writing.
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Research Design Research Design: This refers to how you arrange participants into groups. Research design is not ‘experimental method’.
It is very likely that you will be using Independent Measures (or, ‘Independent Groups’). This is when one group of 10 participants (N=10) is exposed to the control group and the other group of 10 other participants (N=10) is exposed to the experimental condition/manipulation of the IV. In Repeated Measures, one group of 10 participants (N=10) is exposed to the control group and that same group of 10 participant is then exposed to the experimental condition/manipulation of the IV. Task 10 mins: in your group, please make a quick general list of both strengths and limitations to using each design. What is a positive to having two totally separate groups do two different conditions? Then, reflect on the study your group is replicating. What are a couple strengths/limitations to the design you are using, as per your experiment? How can you justify using the design you will use? If it's a memory experiment and you are exposing 2 groups to 2 different lists, it might be important that one group doesn't see the list twice. Talk through the justification for your research design. |
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Sampling technique
To make this very clear, we are all using an opportunity sample, or a 'convenience sample'. HL students, you are very familiar with this term as it is one of the sampling methods we study in Paper 3.
Please review what an opportunity sample is: Oxford text p11-12. Take any notes you wish to.
As a group, please ensure you all understand why we are not using a random sample.
Please review what an opportunity sample is: Oxford text p11-12. Take any notes you wish to.
As a group, please ensure you all understand why we are not using a random sample.
Controlled Variables
Please make a detailed list together of which variables you will need to control between the two conditions: control group and experimental group.
You do not have control over classroom space.
You DO have control over where participants sit, however.
You do not have control over who is in your experiment.
You DO have control over how you treat the two groups, however, meaning what you say to them using Standardized Instructions.
You also have control over the materials you use with participants, forms, layout, etc.
What else?
You do not have control over classroom space.
You DO have control over where participants sit, however.
You do not have control over who is in your experiment.
You DO have control over how you treat the two groups, however, meaning what you say to them using Standardized Instructions.
You also have control over the materials you use with participants, forms, layout, etc.
What else?