Author: Ralitsa Todorova

For Paper 2 Data Collection

Recruit at least 3 participants! Each participant should:

  1. Complete the Big Five Personality test: http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test
  2. Complete the Student Learning and Studying Behaviors survey
    1. Score their survey after they are done – follow the scoring guide!
  3. Input participant data on googledoc
    1. Use your initials and then enter the data from each of their questionnaires

MAKE SURE YOU ALTERNATE WHICH SURVEY YOU HAVE THEM COMPLETE FIRST! (So if your first participant does the Big Five first, have your 2nd participant take the studying survey first.)

Please complete your data collection by Sunday at 8pm.

SQ5

Like all experimental designs, within-subject designs have limitations. But instead of focusing on disadvantages, please describe the advantages that a within-subjects design can bring. What might be a scenario in which choosing a within-subjects design would be more appropriate than a between-subjects (between-groups) design?

SQ4

For SQ4, please review the 2nd draft of the student learning and studying behaviors survey. Consider any wording that may still need to be modified and answer options that need to be further developed. I have left some notes in caps on questions that the class was split on.

In addition, we need to define ‘studying’ and ‘assignments’ for our participants. If you have an idea of how these can be defined, please also post that here.

You don’t need to address every single question in your SQ response. Focus on what sticks out to you and what may need more work. I think it might be best to post your responses directly on the blog, rather than in individual word docs, but I leave it up to you to decide how you want to respond to the SQ.

Survey draft version 2

To complete for class on 3/5

  1. McCrae & Costa (1997) summary and reaction

Please write a 3 paragraph summary of the article by McCrae and Costa (1997). One paragraph should cover the information from the introduction, one from the method, and one from the discussion. If you feel that you need to reference specific information from the results section in order to make your discussion paragraph more thorough, feel free.

Then at the end, write another paragraph on your reactions to the reading. What do you think about McCrae and Costa’s findings and about personality traits as universal?

 

  1. Survey development

Having read chapter 11, you should have a sense of survey design and development. Please begin thinking about what kinds of questions we might want to ask in our survey for paper #2.

Remember, our paper is going to examine the relationship between personality traits and student learning and studying behavior. We will obtain the personality scales from an online questionnaire and we will create our student survey as a class.

Now, begin drafting 5-10 questions you think would be relevant to ask for our student learning and studying survey.

*Side note: most of the articles I found when I searched on this topic also looked at academic achievement (GPA, graduation rates, etc.). Think about whether this is something we should also include in our survey.

If you need ideas to get you started, you can begin skimming through the 2 posted readings on our class website. You need to read one of these articles (Bidjerano & Dai (2007) or Komarraju et al. (2011)) for Thursday!

 

Please submit this to me via email (rtodorova@gradcenter.cuny.edu) by the end of our class time – 4pm!!

SQ3

For this study question, please solidify what your two (at least) hypotheses will be for our first paper on squirrel behavior. These should be based on two behaviors that you’ve selected to compare between the two seasons. Each hypothesis should be one-tailed.  Please give rationale as to why you are predicting your hypotheses as such (if it’s based on reading we’ve done, mention the source as well).

SQ2

Find an article in the newspaper that reports the results of some research (hint: check the science section). For that article, try to identify as many “scientific method details” about the research as you can.

For example: what was the hypothesis of the research? What methodology was used? How were the participants recruited? What were the key findings of the study? And feel free to be critical – what were the limitations of the study? How convinced are you of the study’s results?

Finally, please make sure you at least give the name of the article and the newspaper it came from. Bonus points if you give the citation in proper APA format!