Final Paper

75 points

You will be preparing your final paper for the course. This is a continuation of your proposal
revision so all sections included in that paper will be included in this paper as well. You will
need to return to me the Proposal Revision with your final paper. The new paper will now also
include a results section, a discussion section, and any figures and/or tables necessary to
support your results section. Additionally, you will need to slightly modify your abstract to
include some statement of results of study and revise your participants section to include the
descriptive statistics that describe your sample. Your results section neatly presents the means
of your data, the statistics to determine if those means are statistically different from each other,
and any further correlations to further interpret what your data means. Your discussion section
interprets those results (what do they mean) ties them into the framework of your introduction
(relating them to previous studies and theories presented in the introduction) discusses why you
failed to support certain theories, if you did, which might include problems in the study, and
points the reader in the direction of further research. Where would this research go?
Additionally, it is always nice to tie the data to application how would this new study affect
education around spatial processing and sex differences. You should also have a concluding
paragraph that ties it all together. You are required to include at least one figure that illustrates
your group differences (i.e. means and variance of your groups). Point break down will be as
follows:

Abstract revised includes results and is now in appropriate verb tense: 5

1 2 3 4 5

Results not Abstract revised, Results stated, Mostly correct, Clear, concise
included but poorly but unclear and but somewhat description of
executed. no interpretation. vague. outcome.

Method revision: Methods have been revised, is now in appropriate verb tense and participant
section includes descriptive statistics: 10
2 4 6 8 10

No descriptive Still many verb Verb tense Methods section Methods revised
statistics, still in tense errors and corrected, revised and and appropriate
future tense. attempts to descriptive mostly clear who descriptive
describe statistics of the participants means and s.d.
participants but participants were. included to
poorly executed. vague. describe your
groups.

Results statistics correct ones carried out and reported: 10 points

2 4 6 8 10
Statistics done Needs Some Most of the All correct and
incorrectly. Not substantial work. inappropriate correct statistics important
reported. Incorrect stats run or done and no statistics carried
presentation. important ones inappropriate out and
Partially missing. statistics carried reported.
reported. out. Correct
ones reported

Results writing: 10 points

Your results section is well written and has a clear logic.
2 4 6 8 10

Poor - writing Writing is forced. There is a clear Mostly clear and Perfect - logic
had no clear Transitions are logical direction logical. Reader flows naturally.
direction. poorly handled but execution is can follow the Paragraphs
Reporting of but there is not ideal. direction. constructed with
statistics very some marginal Transitions are Paragraphs well topics, support
poorly handled attempt at a poor. constructed with conclusions and
reader cannot cohesive logic. Descriptions topics, but transitions.
tell what Vague may be vague transitions may Transitions
analyses are descriptions of with respect to not be perfect. between topics
being presented. what tests are what variables are natural.
being reported. are being Writing is well
compared. executed.

Discussion data interpretation: 5 points

Your discussion starts with a paragraph describing what your data showed.
1 2 3 4 5

Not done. Poor treatment Describes only a Good Perfect good

of data portion of the description, but description of
description. effects does not data.
observed. describe all of
what was
observed in the
data.

Discussion describe how data relates to previous studies cited in introduction: 10 points
Your discussion must clearly describe how your data relates to the articles you cited in
the introduction as support for your hypotheses. With which studies is it consistent? With which
is it inconsistent? Does it support a theory you discussed? If not, why?
2 4 6 8 10

Poor - reader is Attempt made to Needs more Mostly clear, but Perfect clear
not left knowing tie it together explanation may lack ties to previously
what the with introduction, about how this sophisticated discussed
interpretation of but not well study ties into treatment. theories and
your study executed. previous articles clear.
should be. literature.

Discussion future direction of research and problems in current study: 10 points

Analyze why your study did not produce the results that you wanted. What could have
been done differently and what future studies would add to our understanding of this
phenomenon.
2 4 6 8 10

Did not do this. Poor or vague Only did one of Attempt made to Sophisticated
analysis of both. these things in do both of these treatment of
the discussion things, but did problems and
(or both but not not execute both future directions.
well). well.

Discussion logic and conclusions: 10 points

Discussion is logically written. Clear flow of paragraphs with good transitions.
Conclusion paragraph ties everything together.
2 4 6 8 10

No clear Poorly executed Logical Logic and Logic is clear,

organization or but a direction is problems. No conclusions reading is
direction of detectable. clear tie together mostly well effortless as
discussion. No of topics. executed transitions are
concluding Conclusion is however, some clear and
paragraph. weak. transitions concluding
forced or paragraph is
inadequate. meaningful.

Additional Materials (Figures, appendix and/or tables): 5 points

Figures and tables are now handled correctly in the correct order. Figures need a
separate figure caption page (before the figures themselves). Graphs are appropriate. Tables
used only for means or r values. No SPSS output.
1 2 3 4 5

Not included or Done, but not Many errors in Mostly formatted Perfect
poorly done correctly formatting correctly
formatted