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a brief overview of the investigation |
Abstract |
A brief summary of what your investigation contains including your results. |
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Data that seems tobe inconsistent or contradictory to the patternestablished by additional data |
Outliers |
Data that does not fit a pattern , too small or too large of a number. |
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A type of graph used for descriptivedata that comes from research questions askingabout variables that will be counted. |
Bar graph |
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A statement that summarizes the important parts ofyour experiment and is a discussion of what thedata, patterns, and relationships mean. |
Conclusion |
A statement that tells in a complete sentence what you have learned from doing the investigation or experiment. |
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A variable that is not changed, it stays the same, it is used to compare results. |
Constant variable or the control. |
No changes made to that group in the experiment or investigation. |
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Factual information, especially informationorganized for analysis or used to reason or makedecisions |
Data |
The numbers you collect and record during the investigation or experiment. |
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Making sense ofobservations and data collected during anexperiment using appropriate measures (mean, median, mode, range) . |
Data Analysis |
Finding a pattern to the results that you collected in the eperiment. |
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The responseto the independent variable that can be observed(qualitative) and measured (quantitative). |
Dependent or responding variable |
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A prediction thatforecasts how the independent variable will affectthe dependent variable. |
Hypothesis |
If I do this _________, then I predict that _______________when ___________I __________________. |
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The variablechanged by the scientist; what the investigator istesting. |
Independent or manipulated variable |
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