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PRP1002 Supplementary work:
Research Report
Brief Report Guidelines
You are required to write a full practical research report containing a title page, abstract, introduction, method, results, and discussion sections along with a reference section, and appendix. Guidelines for completing a research report are found in your APA manual. This report is worth 100% of the total grade for the PRP1002 supplementary work. Ensure that the report is correctly formatted in APA style.
The report should follow the APA formatting guidelines described in the APA Publication Manual; refer to Chapter 2 for further details. These guidelines will be used in grading the presentation of your report.
The report must also include all of the following elements. If your report is missing a section, or if a section does not meet the specified length and/or quality, you will not pass.
Title Page: The title should be on a separate page along with your Banner ID number, and affiliation (i.e., Bangor University).
Abstract (120 words max): The abstract should be on a separate page. It should consist of an accurate and complete summary of your research: what issue was addressed, what the findings were, and what conclusions were drawn.
Introduction (1½ pages max): The introduction should be logically structured in the following manner. It should begin with a general introduction to the area of research, and lead logically to a description of the specific issue you are examining. Any terminology should be clearly defined. The introduction should end with a clear statement of the hypothesis (without using the word hypothesis) that you are going to examine, how you are going to examine it, and what your predictions are in relation to the specific experiment
The Method Section (1½ pages max):
- Participants:State how many participants there were and any other relevant participant-related information (e.g., gender, age, descriptives etc.). State how the participants were recruited.
- Stimuli/Materials/Measures:This should include a brief description of the stimulus lists or measures, and perhaps an example if you feel it adds clarification. Other materials used can also be described here.
- Design: This is where you must describe and justify the design of your experiment. You must include the following: A description of the design (within or between-subject, correlational design), a statement of the independent and dependent variables and their levels if relevant.
- Procedure: Describe exactly what happened to the participants in the experiment, e.g. what they were required to do, and the instructions given to the participants. This part of the report should give sufficient detail to allow the study to be replicated in the future.
Results Section (1 page max): You have written results sections as part of your PITS assignments. Follow these previous instructions to guide you (as well as referring to you APA manual).
There is only one dataset to use, and you will be investigating the following research question: Do males and females differ in terms of risk orientation? In order to investigate this question, you will need to run an independent t-test.
The questionnaire used to obtain these data is on blackboard, along with a brief description of the procedure used. NOTE: You are expected to write this information in your own words. Do not ‘copy and paste’. If you do this, you will be penalised for plagiarism. Please consult the following information, along with information provided in your PITS classes, whilst completing the results section.
Between group analysis using an independent t test.
- You should write about how you explored the data in SPSS. Describe the data, and produce a figure showing the answer to your original research question.
- You will need to support this with your statistical findings, report descriptives, giving appropriate statistical statement, direction of findings and effect size, etc.
- Appendices – Show any methods you used to explore your data and include the output for your descriptive statistics, ttest analysis, and effect size calculations.
Discussion (1½ pages max): First, you should describe your results in relation to the prediction or research question you are testing. Discuss your findings in relation to your theory and hypothesis/research question. If the results were inconsistent with the hypothesis/research question, consider why this may have been the case. For example, was there a problem with the experimental design? Was there some other factor that may have influenced the results? You should broaden your discussion to consider the wider implications. Finally, you should provide at least one proposal for how you think this line of research could be extended in a further study.
References: All references cited in the text should be included here. For guidelines see the APA manual.
Appendix: Appendices should include a copy of the test instruments used (questionnaires), and a copy of your SPSS output.
GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR SUPPORT AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
The final research report should be submitted via Blackboard by 5pm, Friday July 15th.
During the week, you will be given the opportunity to ask the graduate instructors for feedback on your report – it is strongly recommended that you do this. The graduate instructors will provide feedback on the structure of your report, but will not edit the content – it is your responsibility to review the literature in order to justify your hypothesis.
You may ask the graduate instructors for help if you are unsure as to whether you are conducting the correct analysis, however they will not do the analysis for you. You need to demonstrate the ability to conduct and interpret the output of statistical analyses.
You will also need to meet with the module organiser, Dr Mike Beverley, during the week. Dr Mike Beverley has arranged a two-hour drop in session on Thursday, July 14th 10-12. You are expected to bring a draft of your research report to this drop-in session in order to receive feedback on your work.