Imagine you are a graduate assistant working at a pharmaceutical company who has gotten FDA approval for a new study aid called “Rememberall.
Topic: Imagine you are a graduate assistant working at a pharmaceutical company who has gotten FDA approval for a new study aid called “Rememberall.” You want to conduct an experiment at Wilmington University to determine if the study aid is effective. Your writing assignment for this week involves explaining how your experiment will be conducted. Please address the following items in order to complete the assignment:
Order Information: Explain the design of your study. Who will be the participants? How will you recruit them? How will you assign participants to groups? What will be the conditions, and how will you make this decision? Will your study use repeated measures, a matched pair design or random assignment to one condition, and why? How will you define ‘success’ of Rememberall? Why did you choose to operationalize your variable in this manner? Identify the independent and dependent variables for your study. Why did you choose these variables? Imagine at this point that your study goes well. How will you demonstrate evidence of reliability of your study? Would you look for test-retest reliability, internal consistency of your measure, or interrater reliability to make your case? Explain why you have chosen this type of reliability measure for your study. Before marketing Rememberall you are tasked with making sure your study has been valid. Propose one way you could demonstrate that your study has predictive validity and explain how this proposal would demonstrate this type of validity. Finally, propose one confounding variable that might be present in your study and explain how this confounding variable might threaten the construct validity of your study.
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