What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design? Is it true that breakfast helps us to perform better in school
What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate? Will the students who eat breakfast every morning perform better on the test than those who do not
What type of design would best suit your research question? Experimental
What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? Survey to ask students about their eating habits
Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find. Students who eat breakfast every morning will perform better on the test than students who do not eat.
What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it? College students, might get them to change their eating habits and perform better in school.
Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?The most difficult part is to get people to take your survey considering the fact people do not take surveys seriously and prefer not to participate because of personal reasons or they are just lazy.
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