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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Georgia Southern University
2011-07-01
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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 |