Points to Remember in Preparing Your Report

As you finalize your report, be guided by the following list.

1. State your conclusions in a way that relates your findings to your hypothesis.
2. Identify any confounded variables which may have limited the internal validity of your study.
3. Give your assessment of the likelihood that confounding actually occurred.
4. Identify the limits to the external validity of your experiment in regard to your subjects, operational definitions, and experimental situation.
5. Report any theoretical implications of your findings.
6. Note: Your experiment tested no formal theory, but you may be able to identify some testable predications that follow logically from your conclusions. Let these predictions serve as theoretical implications.
7. Discuss whether your results can be generalized, and to what population.
8. Report any practical implications of your findings.