Sample Apa Paper For Students Interested In Learning Apa Style 6th Edition Page 6
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describe reliability and validity in the Results section (see below). However, you would only do
this for a scale-development project.
Procedure
This section describes in great detail the data-collection procedures. Describe how
participants were recruited, whether they participated alone or in groups, how informed consent
or assent was obtained, what they were asked to do, how they were compensated for their
participation, etc. It is hard to make this section too detailed. You should describe the procedure
in a way that another researcher could conduct the same study (i.e., replicate it) just by reading
about the procedure.
Results
The Results section may be the most difficult to write, at least until you get a little
practice with reporting statistical analyses. This is the section where the results of the data
analyses are presented. Section 2.07 in the APA manual (APA, 2010) will help a little bit. It’s
often helpful to use tables (see Table 1) to help describe your results, especially when you have a
lot of data to report, such as means and standard deviations. Table 2 provides another example of
a table, this one describing correlations.
You may find it helpful to remind the reader of the hypothesis before presenting each
result. It is also a good idea to tell the reader what type of data analysis was done (e.g.,
correlation, ANOVA) before it is presented. State what alpha level you adopted; an alpha level of
.05 is the standard. Although you should be sure not to try to interpret or explain your results
here, it is appropriate to state whether or not your hypotheses were supported. Just don’t try to
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