Conducting Experiments

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Experimental research can be roughly divided into five phases:

• Identifying a research problem
• Planning an experimental research study
• Conducting the experiment
• Analyzing the data
• Writing the paper/presentation describing the findings

In this section, we explore how an experiment or quasi-experiment is constructed step-by-step, noting that these steps are by no means exhaustive. We sketch them out to provide a rudimentary understanding of how the process works.

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• Identifying a research problem
• Planning an experimental research study
• Conducting the experiment
• Analyzing the data
• Reporting the Results