PSY 255 Week 1 Assignment – Planning an Experiment

Create an experiment that tests the following scenario: You work for the Educational Curriculum Company as a curriculum developer. Your company has created a new reading program (E-Z-Read) to be used in elementary schools. Your task is to design a way of testing this new program at Desert Mountain Elementary School.

The principal has allowed you to have access to two classrooms: Miss Jones’s and Mrs. Brown’s classrooms.

Prepare a report of 500-750 words that describes the hypothesis, participants, experimental group, control group, independent variable, dependent variable, and how you are going to make the two groups equivalent at the beginning of the experiment.

Also, discuss why correlations and case studies would not be useful for this type of study.

Your paper must include a minimum of one source.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. 

 

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.  Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.  Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.