Experimental Research Designs
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast the 3 key pre-experimental research designs
- Compare and contrast the 3 key posttest-only research designs
- Compare and contrast the 2 key pretest-posttest research designs
- Explain the difference in between-participants and within-participants research designs, as well as how to combine them
- Describe the process of how to successfully secure Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of your experimental protocol
- Prepare experimental study materials using freely available as well as paid resources
- Discuss how to carry out a pilot study to preliminarily validate your protocol and materials
- Use G*Power for a priori sample size determination, taking into consideration significance level, effect size, and statistical power
- Find, recruit, and schedule human participants or animal subjects for your study
- Collect informed consent, carry out experimental procedures, and debrief research participants
- Avoid the most common mistakes made when planning, carrying out, and interpreting the findings of pre-experimental, posttest-only, or pretest-posttest research
Instructor
Sarah M. Coyne, PhD is Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Human Development in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. She received her BSc in Psychology from Utah State University and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Central Lancashire. Dr. Coyne is a popular speaker at both national as well as international conferences and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications on topics including media, aggression, gender, and child development. Dr. Coyne currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for Psychology of Popular Media Culture as well as Developmental Psychology, and she is former Associate Editor of Aggressive Behavior. Her research has been supported by grants from leading funding bodies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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