How was the experiment designed?
Define the variables
Formal statement of hypothesis
What variables were manipulated?
What results were expected? Why?
Make why the results were expected explicite. 
Clearly develop rationale behind each hypothesis
Describe method
Subjects
Apparatus
Procedure
What you did and how you did it
Results
Briefly state main results.
Report data in sufficient detail to justify conclusion


Discuss results
interpret implications
Speculation should be identified as such, related closely and logically with emperical data or theory, and expressed concisly.


From callahan@tove.umd.edu Mon Jan 12 23:17:58 1987
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 86 22:53:28 EST
From: Jack Callahan <callahan@tove.umd.edu>
To: don@tove.umd.edu
Cc: mark@tove.umd.edu, callahan@tove.umd.edu
Subject: more menus


The following is the list of menus with the goals of each trial in
parens.  Each menu will be seen twice - once in pie format and once
in linear format.  Place the menu items appropriately where necessary
(like up, down belong at the top and bottom of a pie menu and placed
together in a linear menu).  Opposites should be placed together in
a linear menu and linear tasks should be placed in clockwise order
in a pie menu.

Goal doesn't matter on demo and practice menus.

Here are the demo menus:

Using linear: Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, Rook
Using pie: Hearts, Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, Ace, King, Jack, Queen

Here are the practice menus:

Using linear: Home, First Base, Second Base, Third Base, Left Field,
Right Field, Foul, Foul
Using pie: Today, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday

Here are the pie tasks:

North,South,East,West,NorthWest,SouthEast,NorthEast,SouthWest (North,
SouthWest)
Open,Close,Up,Down,Black,White,Left,Right (Right, Down)
Full,Empty,Dark,Light,In,Out,Active,InActive (Empty, Active)
Young,Old,Fat,Thin,Tall,Short,Top,Bottom (Tall, Bottom)
More,Less,Larger,Smaller,Quick,Slow,Low,High (High, Low)

Here are the linear tasks

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (4,8)
One,Two,Three,Four,Five,Six,Seven,Eight (Five, Seven)
First,Second,Third,Fourth,Fifth,Sixth,Seventh,Eighth (Sixth, Second)
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H (F,B)
Ape,Bear,Cat,Dragon,Elephant,Fish,Giraffe,Horse (Giraffe,Dragon)

and finally, five miscellaneous menus that fall into neither category:

Print,Move,Copy,Delete,Undo,Again,Find,Property (Again,Move)
Clear,Next,Skip,Center,Bold,Case,Italic,Font (Font,Center)
Apples,Spinach,Oranges,Pears,Beets,Tomato,Peach,Cabbage (Spinach,Peach)
Deliver,Another,Destroy,Reset,Kill,Abort,Start,Change (Deliver,Change)
Create,Stop,Expand,Define,Shift,Lock,Search,Quit (Define,Quit)

This is the data we need from each trial:

SubjectNumber, MenuType, TaskType, TimeToItem

MenuType = linear, pie
TaskType = pie, linear, mixed
TimeToItem = time from menu up to item selected.  If incorrect item
selected, repeat menu and accumulate time

-- jack