Study protocol

More details for the design of Study C are given in the accompanying study protocol (Hanson and Fernandez-Rivera, 2005). Students should be encouraged to read this protocol, and tackle some of the study questions that refer to it. It shows the student or young researcher how to go about developing a study protocol - the headings are given below. Case Study 13 also deals with study protocol writing.

Main heading	Sub-heading
Justification
Objective
Null hypothesis
Expected outputs
Materials and Methods	Accessions
	Animals
	Feeding of animals
	Monitoring of experiment
	Response variables
	Experimental design and analysis
Calendar
Budget
References