Question

Recently a research company conducted a study about the factors related to study motivation and behaviors on online learning. Voluntary participants from a university were randomly assigned to two groups. One group was provided a 12-hour free online course in 4 weeks while the other group needs to pay 100 RMB which would be returned to them after they complete the course. Study behaviors were automatically recorded by the online course system every time when they use it. Researchers also investigated how their study motivation change during the four weeks.

a. What is the objective of the study? Reporting, descriptive, causal-explanatory or causal-predictive? Explain.

b. Would it be an ex post facto design or an experiment? Explain.

c. Would it be a field study, laboratory study, simulation study? Explain.

d. Would it be longitudinal study or cross-sectional study? Explain.

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ANSWER::

Ans 1) a) The objective of the study is to develop behavioral quality i.e. how to develop behavioral nature during online learning and one should be kept motivated during this learning. During the four weeks of study they have monitored one's behavior and how one is kept motivated during this period. As four weeks is a longer time period and during this period how one has maintained one's behavior and has been motivated during this period was observed under this study. In my opinion, it is reporting type of study because this study can only be conducted when all students will be there online as this study totally relies on online study so this could be only conducted when all students will be reporting online

b) It will be an ex post facto designing because here this behavior and motivation are already present in students but they are monitored online during this study

c) It would be a simulation study because all data collected would be monitored online and these will be compared with the alternative data i.e. data already present.

d) It is a longitudinal based study because longitudional study is an observational research method in which data is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time and here data has been collected over four weeks and then a comparative study was then observed

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