Question

Children ability to working together on school project. How would you do research on the design of cross-sectional?

Answer 1

A cross-sectional study is an observational study in which unlike longitudinal studies, the subjects are not the same over a period of time. Cross-sectional study includes subjects from different age-groups, exposed to the same environmental conditions with the same amount of manipulation of independent variable. The results on all groups are then noted.

Children's ability to work together on school project can be understood through cross-sectional design by introducing a group of students aged between 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16 as an experimental group. The independent variable would remain the same across all three groups. The results obtained on all the three groups would then be compared and concluded as to which group of children's' ability to work together on a school project is stronger.