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Updated 2023 Design and Deconstruct Psych
Updated 2023 Design and Deconstruct Psych
Purpose of Assessment:
participate in an ethically approved investigation (Research Program – Music), present your results in an appropriate format,
and suggest a conclusion that could be made from the data you obtained
evaluate the method and analyse the data obtained
deconstruct a problem related to the Music investigation, and
design a method – without implementation - to investigate this problem.
Description of assessment
The report you are required to produce should contain three sections:
Deconstruction (Part B)
2. The Deconstruction section of the report requires you to consider how you could conduct new research addressing a problem
related to this investigation.
You could do this by including:
a consideration of how different factors regarding music as well as other variables can affect emotion
identification of the dependent and independent variables
a consideration of the factors that should be held constant, with a description of how these factors could be controlled
identification of factors that may not be able to be controlled
a consideration of the sampling method and sample size
Design (Part B)
3. The Design section of your report must include:
a hypothesis or an investigable question
a list of materials required
a detailed method to test your hypothesis or question
identification and management of ethical risks
suggestions for the results that would support your hypothesis
explanations of the limitations of the investigation or the conclusions that could be drawn
references (if applicable).
You could annotate your design to explain why you have made the decisions you have made.
Assessment Conditions:
The deconstruct and design section should be on no more than 3 single sided A4 sheets of paper.
Teacher Comments:
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Overall Grade:
Design and Deconstruct Practical