Development and Refinement of a Research Study Assessing Student Attention in General Chemistry

摘要

Planning an experiment and collecting and analyzing data is only half the process of doing research. Progression from research ideas to a published manuscript is an iterative process. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the decisions in that process including the development and refinement of the research questions, methodology, data analysis, and conclusions that must be completed before an article is likely to be accepted for publication. These decisions will be discussed within the context of a research experiment dealing with an innovative use of a measurement tool to collect data on student attention lapses in general chemistry. Use of reviewer comments in the journal submission process to improve the manuscript is discussed in terms of the changes that were made in the final version of the manuscript prior to acceptance for publication.