Main Menu for Chapter 12 of Research Design Explained (8th Ed.)

• Overview
  • Chapter Outline
  • Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
  • Chapter 12 Key Terms and Issues
• Lectures
  • Lecture 12.1
  • Lecture 12.2
  • Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
  • Bonus powerpoint lecture(password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)

• Chapter 12 section of the student website

• Handouts
  • Handout 12.1: Designing a factorial experiment
  • Handout 12.2: ANOVA Summary Table Exercises
  • A gentle introduction to the 2 X 2 design
  • A more advanced worksheet for understanding the 2 X 2 design
  • Detailed Learning Objectives for Chapter 12
  • Crossword puzzle
    • Completed crossword puzzle (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)

• Activities/Discussion Topics
  • Have students participate in and analyze data from the following eyewitness testimony experiment
  • Discuss or assign an interesting article describing a pair of 2 X 2 factorial experiments. Use this link to get an article summary and a handout that will help students understand the article.
  • Have students read this article describing the results of several simple experiments analyzed as 2 (manipulation) X 2 (gender) designs (includes handouts to help students understand the article).
  • Have students go through this tutorial (can assign as homework either before or after your presentation on interactions). Students get a certificate upon completing the tutorial.
  • Go into depth on ordinal interactions by assigning this Web Appendix
  • Review interactions
  • Interpret the results of ANOVA summary tables
  • Discuss types of factorial designs
  • Statistical skills
  • Have students propose a factorial experiment
  • Have students present the results of a factorial experiment
  • Have students conduct -- or role play -- a factorial experiment

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