My experiment will involve the consent of 4 different classes of the same subject. Ideally, 2 of the classes would give their consent to take a new designer drug that increases the brains ability to recall memory and enhance problem solving functions. This is all that will be said to the 2 classes who will participate in taking the placebo aside from being informed that the drug has been successfully tested on primates for the last 20 years and has been confirmed by many leading scientists to work on humans.
The other 2 classes will be told nothing of the experiment and will act as a control group. The course will be a college algebra course which will help make the test more “standard” by combining memory of formulas with problem solving. The students involved are randomly assigned to this course in the block schedules they submitted themselves to upon registration.
After the test is complete we can compare the scores of the two groups to see if there are any noticeable trends. Ideally, this test could be done every year at the same time at the same university to improve the accuracy towards what we may have concluded from our first batch of data.
Even though this experiment is not a perfect science experiment it will give us the ability to see how confidence affects academic performance. With this information we may be able to gain a deeper understanding of how to improve an individuals academic performance in a way that may have been otherwise overlooked.
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