{"id":427,"date":"2018-11-05T21:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp102\/?page_id=427"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:52:49","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp102\/learning-pathways\/experimental-research-methods\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Research_terms_Wordle_4.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Research terms Wordle 4.jpg\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/a\/a8\/Research_terms_Wordle_4.jpg\/400px-Research_terms_Wordle_4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Overview\">Overview<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Now that you have learned about the great variety of nonexperimental research methods, we turn to the one category of research designs that allows researchers to ascertain cause and effect: experimental research. This Unit will begin with a discussion of the basics of experimental design, including the criteria for a true experiment, before going on to more complex experimental designs that involve multiple independent and dependent variables. Unit 2 closes by considering a special kind of approach to experimental research designed for use with very few subjects.\n<\/p>\n<p>The topics to be covered in this unit are:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basics of Experimental Research\n<\/li>\n<li> Internal and External Validity\n<\/li>\n<li> Between-Subjects Experiments\n<\/li>\n<li> Within-Subjects Experiments\n<\/li>\n<li> Practical Considerations\n<\/li>\n<li> Complex Research Designs\n<\/li>\n<li> Single-Subject Research\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.010 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.011 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 3\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 8\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:184441-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20181105210052 and revision id 1056978\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/irmp102\/learning-pathways\/nonexperimental-research-methods\/activities-and-assessments-checklist\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/irmp102\/learning-pathways\/experimental-research-methods\/outcomes\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Overview Now that you have learned about the great variety of nonexperimental research methods, we turn to the one category of research designs that allows researchers to ascertain cause and effect: experimental research. 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