Practice Exam Flashcards
What must be included in Task 1: What is the research question of the current study? Please explain in your own words.
1) Context, Background: “What does the literature say?
Why is it relevant?”
2) RQ(s): Write down & label RQ
3) Hypotheses: Economic & Behavioral
What must be included in Task 2: How was the research question mapped into the experimental design? Please critically evaluate the authors’ approach?
1) Experimental Design: “Within or Between Group? Factors? Randomization or Natural Groups?”
2) In experimental language: “Writing down experimental design with R, X, O, —, Defining all Xs and Os”
3) Mathematical Hypotheses: H0 and H1,H2,H3,…
What must be included in Task 2: What do you like about the design and why? What don’t you like about the design and why?
- Is Design good? (What factors controlled for?)
- Randomization (Yes, No, Good/Bad?)
- All types of validity ()
- All effects that come with it
- Sufficient sample size (~min 15 observations in each group)”
What must be included in Task 3: What kind of findings do you anticipate from the study and what kind of statistics would you apply (make assumptions on the scales of the variables)?
1) Identify variables + scale:
- “Dependent, Independent Variables
- Metric, Ordinal, Nominal”
2) Statistical Test
- “Which test?
- Which assumptions?
- How many (independent or dependent) samples?”
What must be included in Task 4: Let’s assume the findings are as you expected. How conclusive are they? Would you completely trust the findings, and if so, why? If you do not think they are conclusive, what other studies would you propose for substantiating the results?
Anticipate results & think of alternatives:
- Assume that you can reject H0 and find evidence for all alternative Hs. What does that mean?
- Do you trust it (argumentation about design)?
- How would you improve/adjust it? What further study would make results more valid?
- Reliability?
- External validity (generalizability)?
