Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology Peter Harris
     
 
 
 
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  A. Choosing a statistical test  
  B. Reporting specific inferential statistics  
  C. More on main effects, interactions and graphing interactions  
  D. Rules for writers  
  E. Reporting studies that include questionnaires  
  E1 Studies involving questionnaire  
  E2 Design  
  E3 Questionnaire development  
  E4 Materials  
  E5 Procedure  
  E6 Computer presentation  
  E7 Results  
  E8 Reporting non experimental studies  
  E9 The reliability and validity of your measures  
  E10 An example to help you report studies using Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) measures  
  F. Experimental and nonexperimental data: Some things to watch out for  
  G. Some tips for advanced students to improve your experiments yet further  
  H. Some issues to consider in the RESULTS sections of your later reports and your projects  
  I. Final year projects  
     
 
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Reporting studies that include questionnaires

 

E5 Procedure

The procedure is designed to give a blow-by-blow account, in sequence, of what was said and done to the participant. In experiments and other studies involving questionnaires, much of this will already have been described in the MATERIALS. If so, it will not need to be repeated here. Confine yourself to the following:

1 A description of the circumstances in which the questionnaire was handed out
2 A description of the script of any face-to-face interaction with participants. As usual, report verbatim any key bits and give the gist of the rest. Report the full script in an appendix. (For more on the use of appendices in reports see section 7.6 of the book.)
3 A description of how the completed questionnaires were returned.

 

 

 

 

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