Question

Design an experiment to determine the effect which commuting versus living on campus has on a college student's academic success and use it to answer the following questions:

1. What is your hypothesis?

2. Who will be in the sample? (Who will be the participants?)

3. How will you conduct the research? (What will be the treatment/experimental group versus the control group?)

4. What are the independent and dependent variables?

5. What do you need to do from an ethics standpoint?

Answer 1

Design an experiment to determine the effect which commuting versus living on campus has on a college student's academic success and use it to answer the following questions:

Note: There will be many factors that affect a college student's academic success like his/her hard work, perseverence, IQ level, memory type, social support, home environment and other factors, which make it  hard to pin point the sole effects of commuting on academic success. In my opinion a correlational study will give us a good idea about whether a relationship exits between the 2 variables or not

1. What is your hypothesis - Relationship between academic success and commuting

Null hypothesis - There is no relationship between academic success and commuting.

2. Who will be in the sample? (Who will be the participants?)

The sample will contain the cummulative GPA scores of all last year (4th year) students from undergrad (first year to the fourth year).

3. How will you conduct the research? (What will be the treatment/experimental group versus the control group?)

Since this is a correlational study there are no independent and dependent variables.

Only the 2 correlational groups will exist, that is, the group of students that stay on campus and the group of students that commmute to the institute.

The cummulative GPA of the fourth year will be used to conduct a correlational analysis between the 2 groups.

4. What are the independent and dependent variables?

Since this is a correlational study there are no independent and dependent variables.

Only the 2 correlational groups will exist, that is, the group of students that stay on campus and the group of students that commmute to the institute.

5. What do you need to do from an ethics standpoint?

We will need to speak to the students and ask them their permission to use their last year CGPA score to conduct a study. We need to assure them that their grades will be kept confidential at all cost and this data will only be used for research purposes.