You want to run an experiment to see if students would drop a class based on the number of required readings in the syllabus. A professor agrees to help you with your experiment. On the first day of class, two different syllabi are distributed: one has 18 assigned readings and the other has 20 assigned readings. The 18-reading syllabus was printed on pink paper and the 20-reading syllabus was printed on green. After class, each student is asked to go online to take a survey to complete the experiment. Assess the stimuli and the manipulation.
What will be an ideal response?
May vary. Students might mention that the color variation might have “tipped off”
the students that something was different. The most glaring issue is that this is a weak
manipulation. Going to from 18 readings to 20 readings is not that much of a jump. It
would have been more effective is there were two required readings versus 20 on the
other.
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