Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Pre-soutenance discussion
In a few weeks, all M2 students will be turning in a pre-registration document in preparation for their pre-soutenance. There is an example of a pre-registration here and some other helpful documents can be accessed from here. We invite you to post a question or comment in the discussion in this post.
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A student asks:
ReplyDeleteI have a question regarding the preregistration document that we are to provide shortly. The question refers namely to the length of the document, the instructions are that the document should be 2 pages long. However, I was wondering whether the length was dependent on the experiment that we are presenting.
My experiment contains 9 different tasks therefore my methods and analysis section are quite long.
Should I reduce my method section to contain simply a list of the tasks at hand without going into detail as to what and how they measure a certain cognitive process.
Or is there a possibility of having an index?
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My answer:
For the purposes of applying the same rules to everyone, I'd recommend that you try to stick to the length requirements. The purpose of this exercise is to help you assess accurately your state of knowledge and your plans, and to allow us to help you see potential difficulties and plan for them. The length allows the jury to get through all 50 documents in a reasonable time.
So for the public pre-registration that you'd post on OSF, you can have all the space you need. For this one, please try to be concise. For instance, are your 9 tasks all new or have some been used in the past and may have standardized names and formats? I assume they are all apply to the same participants -- if so, the analysis will likely be just one, combining across tasks (otherwise you would have to run hundreds of participants to be able to inspect each task separately) - but I'm just guessing. Otherwise, you can list the tasks, then focus on one analysis to have a go at producing a well-specified pre-registered analysis description, and state you'll do the same for other tasks.
Public Pre-registration:
ReplyDeleteOSF Public pre-registration should be done AFTER the soutenance so as to integrate the amendments made by the Jury.
Ammendment: Remember that you can pre-register several times, so you *can* indeed wait to get feedback, but you can also pre-register before and after the presoutenance.
ReplyDeleteHello !
ReplyDeleteA short question: can we present the bibliography on a 2nd page or do we have to include it in the one-page document (then it has to be very short)?
Ideally the bibliography will be very short, yes!
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