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PSY 223 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

For your first step, you will select a scenario with an accompanying data set from the Scenarios and Data Sets document to be the basis of your statistical

analysis report. When deciding on which scenario to choose, determine which one is the most beneficial for your area of concentration in psychology. Microsoft Excel is the recommended statistical software for this course, and the data sets are already placed into Excel files. Using the Milestone One

Worksheet, you will summarize your chosen scenario and accompanying data set and discuss the potential ethical issues.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Introduction

A. Indicate your scenario/data set choice and explain why you have chosen this particular scenario and data set.

B. Summarize the scenario you’ve chosen, including participants, the data set presented, and the question that can be answered by the data.

C. Discuss why the scenario exemplifies a study that agrees with APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists.

D. Discuss ethical issues that may potentially arise when analyzing and reporting statistical data.

E. Explain what you will do in your data analysis and reporting to ensure alignment with the expectations of APA’s Ethical Principles of

Psychologists.

Guidelines for Submission: Complete the Milestone One Worksheet using complete sentences. Your submission should be no more than 3 pages double

spaced in Microsoft Word and 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Introduction: Choice Indicates data choice and explains why this particular data set/concentration is

important

Indicates data choice and explains why

this particular data set/concentration is

important but introduction is cursory

Does not Indicate data choice or explain why

this particular data set/concentration is

important

10

Introduction: Scenario Provides a summary of the scenario chosen

Provides a summary of the scenario

chosen, but summary is cursory or

illogical

Does not summarize the scenario chosen 20

Introduction: Scenario Agrees Discusses whether or not the scenario selected agrees with the APA Ethical

Principles of Psychologists

Discusses whether or not the scenario

selected agrees with the APA Ethical

Principles of Psychologists, but discussion

is cursory or illogical

Does not discuss whether or not the

scenario selected agrees with the APA

Ethical Principles of Psychologists

20

Introduction: Ethical Issues Discusses ethical issues that may potentially arise when analyzing and

reporting statistical data

Discusses ethical issues that may

potentially arise when analyzing and

reporting statistical data, but discussion

is cursory or illogical

Does not discuss ethical issues that may

potentially arise when analyzing and

reporting statistical data

20

Introduction: Ensure

Alignment Explains what will be done in personal

data analysis and reporting to ensure

alignment with the expectations of the

APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists

Explains what will be done in personal

data analysis and reporting to ensure

alignment with the expectations of the

APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists,

but explanation is illogical or irrelevant

Does not explain what will be done in

personal data analysis and reporting to

ensure alignment with the expectations of

the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists

20

Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or

organization

Submission has major errors related to

citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or

organization that negatively impact

readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to

citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or

organization that prevent understanding of

ideas

10

Total 100%