16 May Data Summary and Analysis

Order Instructions

Research Project (Step 6) Data Summary and Analysis

For this final step in your research project, you are required to format this assignment as you would a Results section following APA guidelines. The Results section reports what you found simply and objectively, without subjective interpretations of why you found these results or what they may mean. [MO 8.3]

Instructions

Analyze the data collected for your project and report your findings. Refer to journal articles, the course textbook, and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association to aid you in determining how to report your findings. Your results need to be detailed and sufficiently comprehensive. Model the formatting used in journal articles, as much of what you see is applicable to your own project.

Organize, summarize, visually display, consider, and evaluate the results obtained in your research project.

Make the determination of whether your results are statistically significant. Without this, your results are incomplete.

As part of your data summary and analysis, indicate if further work and research are needed. Remember, this is being formatted as a Results section. Things that do not belong in a Results section include raw data, explanations of how statistics work, step-by-step statistical calculations, interpretation and/or discussion of results, and any explanations of why the results matter. Any consideration of your results should take place in the Discussion section of your paper. It is the appropriate location to interpret the meaning of the results, put them into context, and explain why they matter.

Please help me put this together according to the directions

My research projects

I observe 5 girls and 5 boys at the local DMV taking their driving tests. I observe from my car with binoculars. a 2-mile driving course at the local DMV office. I had to make several trips to get the proper data because I could not get all the participants.

My finding.

There were 4 different instructors. 2 boys were African American 2 boys were Caucasian 1 was Chinese.

3 Caucasian girls 1 Spanish descent and 1 Afro-American girl took their driver’s test.

Four girls followed all the traffic (one girl did not) signs and 3 Boys followed the traffic signs. (2 boys did not.

They had to wear a mask in the car with the instructor. Each test took about 30-45mins. I can’t see their reaction(behavior) due to the masking. I can observe if they follow the rules of the traffic signs and how they reacted by braking or accelerating through the course. The general mood is nervousness, excitement, and sadness if they fail the test.