Question If you were a professor, what advice would you give a student who proposes the following research project in order to increase the efficiency of the experiment? Study 1 will investigate the effect of an instructor’s gender on student evaluations of the course and Study 2 will investigate the effect of upper level versus lower level courses on student evaluations of the course. answer options: Conduct a 2 X 2 factorial design instead of two individual experiments. Conduct a power analysis after data collection. Collect very small sample sizes for each condition. Collect large sample sizes that only contain males for each condition.
Question
If you were a professor, what advice would you give a student who proposes the
following research project in order to increase the efficiency of the experiment? Study 1 will investigate the effect of an instructor’s gender on student evaluations of the course and Study 2 will investigate the effect of upper level versus lower level courses on student evaluations of the course.
answer options:
Conduct a 2 X 2 factorial design instead of two individual experiments.
Conduct a power analysis after data collection.
Collect very small sample sizes for each condition.
Collect large sample sizes that only contain males for each condition.