Scientific Method
The systematic process used to perform research
What is the scientific method?
Used to prevent outside variables from interfering with the experiments outcome
What is a control?
The condition of an experiment that is manipulated
What is an independent variable?
Ensuring a method measures the same thing every time you use the method.
An informed and educated prediction or explanation about something.
What is a hypothesis?
A study in which information is collected without changing the environment.
what is a descriptive study?
The outcomes that are measured in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
Whether or not an instrument or method truly measures what you think it measures.
What is accuracy?
Testing the hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
A study in which a treatment, procedure, or program is intentionally introduced and a result or outcome is observed.
A result of some manipulation or the manipulation that causes a change.
What is a variable?
Anything that interferes with making a confident conclusion about the study.
What is an error?