Rise to your Ability – The Scavenger Hunt

All together there are 12 subjects. They were recruited in a shelter by taking a 2 question survey. One question was asked if they would like to participate in the study and the next question is how long they were homeless for. This was just a way of getting their consent and if they said yes then they was placed in a group which best fit they level of homelessness. The age group is 18 to 30 years of aged. There gender, race or ethnicity does not matter in this study. The experimental group is the groups that will be playing the game and the control group would not be playing the game. Subjects were assigned to their conditions based on their type of homelessness which are new entry, chronic and episodic. The subjects demographics were determine on the amount of time they was homeless for.I didn’t use any materials to collect the data. The game was presented to homeless people that live in a shelter. They were measured on their types of homelessness and how well they did on their skills performance from a scale of 1-10. In the scale, 10 would be extremely good and 1 would be extremely bad.

The conditions I created and compared were each individual and there level of homelessness which are the chronic, episodic and new entry group. Each type of homelessness has 4 people so that I can have a fair chance of judging each type of homelessness. Each subject was asked to perform a task which would develop or enhance a skill that can help them find a job. I explain things to the subjects by reading them, basic instructions on how to play the game. This game is really simple. I collect date from a 3 people. Each person is assigned to one type of homelessness. Their job is to rate the subjects from a scale of 1-10 based on how well they performed the still asked.

This time the outcome turned out better. I did not use homeless people but I used my friends. They understand the instructions well and followed all the rules. Performance wise they did great. The skill that was intended to accomplish was very successful. They also looked like they enjoyed the game. Some of the task was challenging but they still end up mastering them. I think I should make some of the task even harder to see if there will be a difference in determination. When I compared my results with the control group I find that the people that played the game did better. . I believe they did better because they show an effort that they want to do better than the people that didn’t do anything.

I am still working on perfecting the task that I am providing.