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Methods, Results, and Discussion Project
Due 11/12
Research
Everyone must have a step tracking app or other type of a tracker
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Design
Within-Subject A-B Design
Measuring steps per day as defined by the step tracking device
Subject/Participants
You
Describe yourself (21 year old female, etc…)
Intervention
E-tokens for days meeting goal
Lottery
Apparatus/Materials
Step-Tracking app or accessory
Data Sheet
E-tokens
Gift card
Intervention
After 5 days of baseline data collection the intervention will be implemented
Every day you meet your goal step count you will receive an e-token for the lottery
At the end of the treatment phase, everyone’s lottery slips will be placed in a jar and one name will be pulled.
That person will receive a $25 visa card
Instructions
Activate Step-tracking app
Be sure to have tracking device on your person during waking hours throughout the experiment
Record the number of steps logged on step-tracking app into an MSWord spreadsheet at bedtime
Average the average the steps per day and multiply by .25 at the end of the 5th day. This is number establishes your step goal for the next 5 days
Send a screen shot or record of your data to the lead researcher at the end of day 6 through 10, if you have met your step goal
An e-token will be awarded for each day your goal is met
At the end of the 10 days, your name will be entered into a lottery the number of time you met your individual step goal
Slips of paper of equal size and weight with the participants’ names will be put into a jar. The name of the lottery winner will be pulled from this jar. The winner receives a $25 Visa gift card.
Average the number of steps you take those 5 days and increase that number by 50%
Example:
5 day average = 5,000 steps
Multiply 5,000 by .50 = 2,500
Daily step goal is 7,500
Collect Treatment data for 5 more days
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Paper
Title Page
Abstract
Title Page
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Titles summarize paper by describing major variables
Running head and short title
Authors and affiliations
Abstract
9
150 words or fewer
Summarize
Study purpose
Study methods
Major findings
Conclusions
Paper
Methods
Results
Discussion
Methods
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Participants or Subjects
Demographics
Special characteristics
Apparatus and/or Materials
Any equipment
Any testing materials
Procedures
Design
Operational definitions of variables
Participant recruitment
Assignment to conditions (numbers in each condition)
Instructions to participants
Actual events
Anything unusual that happened
Results
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How were the data handled?
Descriptive statistics – (tables and/or charts might be helpful here)
Analyses (and rationale for their use)
Results of data analyses – (tables and/or charts might be helpful here)
Discussion
There will be research you need to do to understand the short comings of this experiment
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Summary of major findings
Interpretation of each finding as related to each of your study’s hypotheses
Comparisons with results of other studies described in the Introduction – e.g. the data from the current study are consistent with (or not consistent with) the findings of…
Overall conclusions about your study
Limitations of your study
Implications for future research
Citations/ References
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Every time you use someone else’s work in the text, you cite it (even if it is a paraphrase of their idea)
Every citation must have a complete reference in the list at the end of the paper
Use APA format for citations and references
WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE IT—avoid plagiarism
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