Unless otherwise stated, all assignments are due no later than 5:00 PM CST on Mar 1 .

• Visit the Library Tutorial on Primary versus Secondary Sources , and complete the online questionnaire to check your learning.  After you complete the quiz, save the results and upload the file to the dropbox in eLearning.  (Note: You can save the results by using the save as command on the file menu in your Internet browser.) If you are unable to save the results from your browser, save the confirmation message from your email program and upload the file to the Week 7 Lesson 1 dropbox.
• Go to the John C. Pace library online and find an empirically based journal article (one that used data to answer a research question) that uses a group design on a topic you are interested in.
  • Identify the main research question and extrapolate the corresponding null and alternative hypothesis statements from that research question.
  • Skip to the Methods section of the article and read about the "dependent variable", "measurement", "instruments", or any other language that might indicate their outcome variable or what they measured.
  •  Identify the variables they measured and the corresponding constructs.
  • Identify the type of data collected (was it a scale of measurement? If so, which one? what else did they collect?).
  • Identify how many comparison groups they used.
  • Identify how they assigned participants to groups or if they used a quasi-experimental design instead.
  • Post the reference for the article, the main research question, hypotheses, variables, constructs, types of data, number of comparison groups, and assignment to groups to the "Week 7 Lesson 2 " dropbox in eLearning.

Need Help?: A sure bet to find a group design is to look up educational research that evaluates the effectiveness of a curriculum or intervention with a Large Sample of participants. The easiest articles for to decipher will use a two or three group comparison. Large evaluation studies will likely use a group design (unless they are targeting a low incidence population). For examples of what a group design may look like, please view the Student Sample Paper #2 or #4. Note the identification of the design in the Method section, the larger sample sizes than what you found in the single subject designs, and the use of statistics rather than Figures with line graphs in the results sections as you saw in the single subject articles.

If you need additional help, seek assistance from the library. Call them, complete the remainder of the tutorials online, or go to the library and ask for assistance.

Please note: For this course, please upload ALL files to Elearning as Rich Text Format (RTF) rather than word docs.

When you save an assignment in Word, you have the option of choosing "Save As" from the file menu. When you do that, you can select the "File Type" in the window that pops up. Please use the drop down menu under "File Type" to choose Rich Text Format (RTF) before you upload any files to Elearning.