Research Design for One-Way ANOVA

Research Design for One-Way ANOVA

Similar to the previous week’s Discussion, you will critically evaluate a scholarly article related to ANOVA testing.

Whether in a scholarly or practitioner setting, good research and data analysis should have the benefit of peer feedback. The practice of quantitative research not only involves statistical calculations and formulas but also involves the understanding of statistical techniques related to real world applications. You might not become a quantitative researcher nor use statistical methods in your profession, but as a consumer, citizen, and scholar-practitioner, it will be important for you to become a critical consumer of research, which will empower you to read, interpret, and evaluate the strength of claims made in scholarly material and daily news.

For this Discussion, you will critically evaluate a scholarly article related to ANOVA testing.

To prepare for this Discussion:

· Search for and select a quantitative article specific to your discipline and related to one-way ANOVA. Help with this task may be found in the Course guide and assignment help linked in this week’s Learning Resources. Also, you can use as guide the Research Design Alignment Table located in this week’s Learning Resources.

Write a 3- to 5-paragraphs critique of the article. In your critique, include responses to the following:

1. Which is the research design used by the authors?

2. Why did the authors use one-way ANOVA?

3. Do you think it’s the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?

4. Did the authors display the data?

5. Do the results stand alone? Why or why not?

6. Did the authors report effect size? If yes, is this meaningful?

Required Readings

Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Leon-Guerrero, A. (2018). Social statistics for a diverse society (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

· Chapter 11, “Analysis of Variance” (pp. 303-324)

Wagner, W. E. (2016). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

· Chapter 10, “Analysis of Variance”

· Chapter 11, “Editing Output” (previously read in Week 2, 3, 4, 5. and 6)

Datasets

Document: Data Set 2014 General Social Survey (dataset file)

Use this dataset to complete this week’s Discussion.

Note: You will need the SPSS software to open this dataset.

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2016h). One-way ANOVA demonstration [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.