Research Design Worksheet

(Please type responses)

Names of members of your research team:

Title of research project:

Research hypothesis:

Description of project methodology:

Identify the type of research design:

_____ true experiment
_____ independent samples
_____ correlated samples
_____ mixed design
_____ quasi-experiment
_____ ex post facto study
_____ single-subject design
_____ correlational design
_____ naturalistic observation
_____ case study
_____ questionnaire/survey/interview

Identify what you consider to be the primary ethical issue in your study and explain why
it is an issue:

If your project is a true experiment:

Identify the independent variable(s) in the study:

Identify the dependent variable(s) in the study:

Identify the scale of measurement (nominal; ordinal; interval; ratio) for each of the
variables in your study:

Identify the control techniques that your team will use to reduce the influence of
extraneous variables (confounding variables and nuisance variables):

Identify what you consider to be the primary threat to external validity in this study and
explain why it is a threat:

Identify the type of inferential statistics most appropriate for your data analysis (to
answer your research question):