Experimentation & Testing

Creating a useful experiment

Write down answers to the questions:

1. What is the measurable quantity of your SMART goal?
   • This will be your dependent, or Y, variable
2. What are you changing to effect your dependent variable?
   • This will be your independent, or X, variable
3. How will you be measuring your dependent variable?
4. What things could effect the behavior of your experiment that you want to minimize?
   • These are your controls. Control them.
5. Test the results from your each value of your independent variable as many times as you can stomach.
   • Use a minimum of 10 trials

You can use the following lab journal to help you keep track of your data.