Exam 8: Experiments for Evaluation Research

How would you clean your data?

Will informed consent be needed for your study? Why or why not?

Will informed consent be needed for your study? Why or why not?

What other ethical issues might be likely to arise in conducting this research?

Which type of study design will you use for this research? How will it differ from a classical experiment and why? How will this affect the validity of your results?

What is contamination, and how would you try to minimize it?

How will you assign subjects to research groups? Why? What are the pros and cons of this approach?

Evaluate the external validity of your study.

How will you draw a sample of participants for your research? Why?

What are the threats to internal validity, and how would you try to minimize them?

What steps will you need to take to protect your participants?

Experimental researchers can usually control what thing that survey researchers can't?

What steps will you need to take to protect your participants?

Evaluate the external validity of your study.

You have two groups in your experimental evaluation research: treatment and control. Each subject is given a number. You then use a random numbers generator to assign each person to a group. This is called ______

You are conducting experimental evaluation research on employee wellness at a large company after the opening of recreation centers at several of their Midwestern locations. Write a research question for this research project.

Write four hypotheses for this research question.

How would you clean your data?

How will you draw a sample of participants for your research? Why?

Why would you choose to do experimental evaluation research? What is it good at understanding?