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Summary: A researcher was interested in increasing student motivation in community colleges. After reading previous research into the topic of student motivation and emerging adulthood (which is ages 18-25), he hypothesized that students would be more motivated if they felt connected to the campus. He decided to try this out and assess whether it worked. He worked with one college to implement campus connect, a program that gets students to interact with each other and members of the campus community outside of classroom hours. He conducted a pretest of motivation and identified anyone with a score over 5 on a 10-point scale of motivation as motivated; the pretest revealed that only 30% of students met this criteria for being labeled motivated. Based on previous research, he believed that a successful intervention could increase this to 65%. Two months after the program was implemented, he assessed motivation again. This time he found that 72% of students met criteria to be labeled motivated and this result showed a significant increase compared to before the intervention.

From this scenario, answer the following quiz questions.

1. Which of the following designs is being used?

posttest-only experimental design

pretest-posttest experimental design

Solomon four-group design

repeated measures design

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2. . which of the following ins a weakness of this study?

it is not generalizable to all students

it includes many participants

the pretest allows for assessment of change at posttest

a control group is needed to draw conclusions

3. which sentence includes the objective of the study?

.After reading previous research into the topic of student motivation and emerging adulthood (which is ages 18-25), he hypothesized that students would be more motivated if they felt connected to the campus

He worked with one college to implement campus connect, a program that gets students to interact with each other and members of the campus community outside of classroom hours

He conducted a pretest of motivation and identified anyone with a score over 5 on a 10-point scale of motivation as motivated

Based on previous research, he believed that a successful intervention could increase this to 65%

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4.What is the dependent variable?

emerging adulthood

motivation

feeling connected to campus

all of the above

5. What is the independent variable?

feeling connected to campus

motivation

posttest scores

emerging adulthood

6. Which of the following is a strength of this study?

it is generalizable to all students

it is in depth and includes rich qualitative data

the pretest allows for assessment of change at posttest

the use of a control group allows for comparison of difference

Answer 1

1.

As the researcher conducted a pretest before the implementation of his program to assess the motivational level of the students, and a post test to evaluate the level of motivation after the program was implemented, this is,

Answer. Option 2. Pretest-post test experimental design.

2.

The weakness of this study is that, this study is limited to a single college campus, and hence, the results of this limited sample of study could not be applied for larger population of every community college.

Answer. Option 1. It is not generalizable to all students.

Question 3

The researcher is interested in the study of level of motivation in young adults, and the factors that would enhance the level of motivation in their emerging adukadult, hence, the objective is stated in the following sentence:

Answer. Option 1. After reading previous research into the topic of student motivation and emerging adulthood (which is ages 18-25), he hypothesized that students would be more motivated if they felt connected to the campus.

4.

As the level of motivation is studied for the emerging adulthood, the dependent variable is the emerging adulthood, and the independent variable is the level of motivation in this research.

Answer. Option 2. Motivation.

5.

Answer. Option 4. Emerging adulthood.

Question 6.

Answer. Option 3. The protest allows for assessment of change of post test.