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Feedback on Psychology Experiment Reports: Strengths and Areas for Improvement

Join us on Saturday, December 1st, at 4 PM GMT for an essential feedback session on your psychology experiment reports. We will highlight the strengths displayed in your work, such as professionalism and timely submissions, and identify areas needing improvement, including formatting, use of past tense, and data presentation. Learn how to correct common mistakes and enhance your work according to provided guidelines. This is an invaluable opportunity to refine your reports before final submission and secure a solid grade in your psychology course.

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Feedback on Psychology Experiment Reports: Strengths and Areas for Improvement

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  1. Saturday December 1st, 4pm GMT

  2. IA Feedback First, the things that were well done: The Experiment - reading the reports we could see that most of you had conducted your experiments very professionally and had been careful to follow ethical guidelines.

  3. Also well done for… Meeting the deadline – you all got your reports in on time! Asking questions – many of you asked relevant questions before submitting your reports

  4. Things that you need to improve

  5. FORMAT Problems: • word count – do not use 20 when a few will do: • e.g. “I believe that the aim of my replication of Loftus and Palmer’s original experiment will be approximately the same as theirs, and it is…..” 24 words • “Similarly to Loftus and Palmer, my aim is….” 8 words

  6. Title page -not correctly completed • Font - use Times New Roman, size 12 • Incomplete report - no abstract; no in-text citations; references missing; materials list missing or incomplete; appendices incomplete, often with raw data and calculations missing. • Sections in wrong order or wrongly formatted - references wrongly formatted, design sections in wrong order; materials not referenced to appendix. • Wrong tense used – use past tense. This is a report of what you did.

  7. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Read! Read! And then correct your mistakes, following the advice given.

  8. METHOD SECTION

  9. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Read! Read! And then correct your mistakes, following the advice given.

  10. RESULTS – table, graph and words! • Raw data and calculations belong in the Appendices • Choose one measure of central tendency and one measure of dispersion and justify your choice. • Mean and standard deviation go together. • There are many websites that can help. For example, see Measures of CT and dispersion

  11. RESULTS Graph the measure of central tendency only

  12. RESULTS • Add a table *Or median or mode ** Or range or variance • Say in writing why you chose these measures, and write exactly what your results were.

  13. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Read! Read! And then correct your mistakes, following the advice given.

  14. DISCUSSION (super-important!) • CompareALL your results with the study being replicated (measures of CT and of dispersion) • Use your data – if you gathered data on age, gender, ability to drive, etc. and any of it was relevant to your aim, say so. If it proved to be of no significance, say so. • Identify limitations accurately. (It is NOT true that more participants = more reliability!) • Suggest improvements and extensions of the research

  15. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Read! Read! And then correct your mistakes, following the advice given.

  16. THEN…. Do NOT submit this as your final work. Take a day or two and: • Check it against the checklist we supplied • Check it against the feedback your Pamoja teacher gave you on your draft • Check it against the Psychology guide, both the formatting advice and criteria • Check it against the Course Companion advice

  17. FINALLY Submit it to the Dropbox, and relax, knowing that 25% of your PSYCHOLOGY grade is guaranteed to be good!

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