Revealing Student Thinking about Experimental Design and the Roles of Control Experiments

Well-designed “controls” distinguish experimental from non-experimental studies. Surprisingly, we found that a high percentage of students had difficulty identifying control experiments even after completing three university-level laboratory courses. To address this issue, we designed and ran a revi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jia Shi, Joy Power, Michael Klymkowsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georgia Southern University 2011-07-01
Series:International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol5/iss2/8