APSY2216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Surveymonkey, Scatter Plot, Internal Validity

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2216
• Professor: Thomson

Document Summary

Today, we will continue talking about associational research. Next week, we will talk about qualitative and survey research. Design a survey with 8-10 sample questions related to your research proposal topic. Think about who would take your survey and what information you are trying to gather. Pay attention to how you write your questions, the response choice, and the design. Upload a word document to canvas, including the surveymonkey link. One variable is categorical, one variable is continuous. To what extent is gender related to math achievement? (gender is categorical, math achievement is continuous) Appropriate when both independent and dependent variables are continuous. When we observe change/variation in the iv, there is a corresponding, predictable change in the. With correlational research, we can examine a much wider range of ivs. Data can be plotted on a graph (each data point has one variable on the x-axis and one variable on the y-axis)