SIMULATE AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Topic: The Impact lower socio economic status delay cognitive development in language acquisition
Methodology:
Recruited 600 participants
Age 5 – 7 year olds
300 from Higher Socio economic and 300 from Lower Socio economic backgrounds
With exclusion we were left with 300 participants
Lower socio economic n = 150 (70 boys and 80 girls)
Higher socioeconomic n = 150 (64 boys and 86 girls)
Controlling Variables:
Quality of education
Availability of resources
Home environment
Level of stimulation the child receives
Confounding Variables
Genetics
Parents level of education
Teacher quality
Cultural background
SES measure:
Parent Income
Occupation
Level of education
Marital status
We will use CORRELATION DESIGN
We will use MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS to handle the confounding variable and find unique contribution of SES to language development
CODING: use 2 Coders to assess the inter – ratter reliability using SPSS
Conduct hypothesis testing to find significance of results, the p – value associated with each predictor variable and effect size to determine practical significance of results.