Experimental Design

You work for a curriculum development company that has created a program designed to teach reading to students in grades 1-3.

1) Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

a) This assignment uses a grading rubric .

b) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

c) 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.

2) Include the following in your experiment design

a) Develop a hypothesis, labeling the independent and dependent variables,

b) Discuss how the psychoanalytic, cognitive, and behavior/social development of the students will affect the way you design and conduct the experiment.

c) Discuss what the experimental and control groups are doing in the study

d) Decide how many participants are needed and from what population groups they should come

e) Discuss random sampling and random assignment.