psychology Seating Experiment

             Students who sit in the first row of the class room will receive A 's. The students in the second and third rows will receive B 's and C 's. The students that sit in the fourth and fifth rows will receive D's and F's.
             I am going to take thirty high school students. I am going to randomly assign them to a seat in the class room that is set up with six desks in each row with five rows. They will all be taught the same on the same day at the same time at the same level. They will be moved five times over the time they are in they class. They will be given five tests on the information they learned while sitting in that particular seat. After the test the student will then be moved to a different row of the class room and then tested again later on different information that they learned while sitting in that seat. This will happen five times. At the end of all five tests I will compare how each row did on each test. And determine which row is the best row for students who want to get good grades to sit in.
             The experimental group is the students and how they are getting randomly moved to a different row five times through out the year. The control group is that the teacher. The teacher is teaching the students the exact same things at the exact same time. The control group is also how the class room is set up. The set up of the class does not change through out the year at all.
             Some possible extraneous variables could be learning disorders. This will be taken care of by random assignment in the seating. The students with the learning disorders will be spread out throughout each row because random assignment. Another extraneous variable could be the amount of sleep each student get a night. This could effect the student's performance on their school work. Random assignment would take care of this extraneous var
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