Reflection #3: Experimental Study Design – Due via Canvas on April 2, 2022 at 11

Reflection
#3: Experimental Study Design – Due via Canvas on April 2, 2022 at 11:59 PM
Suppose that you have been
hired by the university administration to design a randomized experimental
study to assess the following hypothesis among graduate students: Attending weekly yoga classes leads to
better performance on exams. Please
create the study design, making sure to address the items below.
Be sure that your study design addresses the following
elements:
1. Refine
the study hypothesis so that it is as specific as possible and contains all
elements of a “good” hypothesis. Remember that the design, conduct, and
analysis of the study flows from the hypothesis.
2. How
will you find and recruit participants?
o
Are there any exclusion criteria that you
would apply?
3. How
will you define the exposure of interest?
o How
will you assign exposure? What will the
unexposed condition be?
4. How
and how often will you collect information on exam performance?
5. What
steps will you take to maximize and assess compliance?
6. What
are the ethical concerns in this study?
7. What
other information would you like to know in order to design this study?
8. Discuss
how you would conduct the data analysis and design shell tables to describe the
characteristics of the participants and the main study results.