Here is where you will discuss how your group designed a study to address your peers' research question. Only one post is required per group. This discussion should have the following information:
Research Question – Be sure to write this in a clear, full sentence.
Hypothesis – Be sure to write this in a clear, full sentence. How you write this will also be highly dependent upon your chosen method.
Sample – Be specific enough for the reader to evaluate if this group is appropriate and representative.
Research Method(s) – Briefly describe what this would look like. Be sure to justify why this(these) would be the best method(s).
Research Design(s) – Again, explain why these designs would work better than others.
Be sure to include everyone's name on this post who participated in designing the study, and again, only one post per group is necessary.
Research Question: What do guardians (foster, adopted, or biological)think the best age gap is for the social development of a child within their family?
ReplyDeleteHypothesis: Children being raised within a 1 to 3 year age gap will develop better socially than children who were raised more than 3 years apart.
Sample: Legal guardians with 2 or more children of all ages in Texas. We chose Texas because this state in particular has a very large population with coastal, rural, and big city locations.
Research Method: Our research method would include giving surveys to guardians to best evaluate their opinions on raising children with different age gaps. A survey would be the best and cheapest method because the question asks for a guardian's current opinion on the children they are currently raising resulting in no need for an experiment or observation to be needed for accurate results in this particular research question.
Research Design: A correlational design is the most appropriate option for this study because we are not measuring a change in development over time and we are not conducting an experiment. Variables are not being manipulated nor are we looking for any causation as to which age gaps are better for the enhancement of social development.
Conducted By: Brianna McMillian, Cami Williams, Braxton Porter, Ali Guldseth, and Sarah Qualls.
Research Question: Does screen time effect how well high school juniors do on tests?
ReplyDeleteHypothesis: Greater screen time negatively effects test scores.
Sample: A random selection of 50 students from Butte High school who are juniors.
Research Method: Develop a standardized test to administer to all the participants. bring these students into a lab. Give 10 students a phone but instruct them not to use the phone at all. Give 20 students a phone and instruct them to use it for 2 hours. Give 20 students a phone and instruct them to use it for 4 hours. Test these students after the 4 hour time period and compare scores.
Research Design: Experimental design works better than observations with the research question given because we can control as many variables as possible and determine causality.
Designed by: Connor Stanghill, Calvin Ball, Jeramiah Mohr, Stephanie McGillen, and Katy Twitchel
Research question: Do children that are 5-6 years old form different social attributes if they grow up in an urban vs rural area?
ReplyDeleteHypothesis: Children in urban areas talk to more people that don't know then children in rural areas.
Sample: 1 kindergarten class at Butte elementary school in 2019 and 1 kindergarten class in Red Lodge 2019.
Research method: Naturalistic observation. We will see how the children act for the first week of school in their normal environment without influence.
Research design: Correlational design, because we are not manipulating variables and are examining the relationship between where the children grew up and the number of people they talk to. We are seeing if where they grew up correlates to how many people they talk to. On the 1st day of school we will have a camera in the classroom and observe how many other kids each kid talks to in both Butte and Red Lodge. This will talk place for the whole first week of school.
Designed by: Jillian LaValley, Caitlin Pelan, Kennedi Ferriter, Kami Bidlake, and Karley Fink
Research Question: Do infants learn faster with sign language or with verbal communication?
ReplyDeleteHypothesis: Infants will learn more vocabulary faster when using sign language then those learning verbally.
Sample: Parents with infants of six months to two years old that volunteered to be apart of the study, with a count of 20 participants.
Research Method: Experimental, the infants will be assigned a group within their age group and also be assigned to learn sign language or verbal language. With sign language an adult would point to an object and using sign language tell the infants what it is. with verbal language an adult would point to an object and say out loud what it is.
Research Designs: Longitudal design, we would be fallowing the same volunteers for a year. Once a month would compare their learning results to see how far they grew in their vocabulary.
Designed by: Ann Douthitt, Leah Vossler, Katarina Kawalski, Taylor Ballard, and Cameron Cassidy
(sorry if I slaughtered a name)
Group 1
ReplyDeleteJulia Vercella, Maggie Chrisman, Madison Devoto, James Watson, Jennifer Hands
Research question:
Does receiving a cellphone at a younger age correlate to self-confidence issues?
Hypothesis:
Receiving a cell phone at a young age can lead to self-confidence issues.
Sample:
Our population would be children from ages 8-18 from the US.
Our sample would be a random selection of 50 children from ages 8-18 in Montana
Research Methods:
Survey
-this would be cheaper to do, but the questions would be up for interpretation.
Interview
-this would gather more in depth info into self-confidence issues and could be more expensive. It would also collect data from fewer people.
Research Design:
We would use a correlational design because we are using data from pre-existing samples and examining the relationship between cell phones and self-confidence issues.
This dos not need to be a longitudinal design because it doesn't need to be looked at over a long period of time. It also wouldn't be useful to run an experiment because we already have pre-existing samples.
(Sorry that this is late, I didn't have wifi all weekend)