Description
Part 1: Research Designs and Threats to Validity Go to the American Psychological Association’s links to data sets and repositories: APA Data Sets and Repositories
- Click on and read about one of the data sets that interests you
- Explore the data base websites
- What type of research design was used in the study you selected.
- What are the threats to external validity for the data set you selected.
- Be sure to support your discussion with scholarly sources
Part 2:
Option A. Go to PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PubMed, ERIC, or JSTOR and search for an article in an area of your interest that used a within-subjects experimental design.
- Read the article
- Why was a within-subjects experimental design used in the study?
- What was the within-subjects factor identified?
- How were time related factors controlled?
