Experiment Design
An experiment is a procedure carefully designed to test a hypothesis. The procedure should yield data that either supports or does not support a hypothesis.
This is a helpful checklist to identify the essential components of experimental design. Make sure you have:
This is a helpful checklist to identify the essential components of experimental design. Make sure you have:
- An operational definition of the independent (manipulated) variable.
- An operational definition of the dependent (responding) variable.
- A description of what factors are kept constant.
- The levels of the independent variable selected for the experiment.
- A description of the the procedure to be followed.
- A description of the trials to be conducted.
- A control group or standard of comparison.