How to Design and Conduct a Experiment
Designing the Experiment
When you decide you are going to conduct a experiment the first thing that you should do is design it in way that it can test your hypothesis. When developing the design of a experiment there is certain criteria to consider.
Helpful tips for Designing an Experiment:
Helpful tips for Designing an Experiment:
- You should define the essential design components which are:
- operational definition of the independent and dependent variables
- what factors are kept constant
- the levels of the independent variable selected for the investigation
- a description of the investigation that you will follow
- a description of the trials you may want to conduct
- and a control so you have something to compare it to
- Make sure your procedure of the experiment you write is clear enough, you can check for clarity by having someone else your procedure and see if they could follow it.
Conducting the Experiment
Here are the steps to ensure accuracy when running a experiment:
Helpful tips for Conducting a Experiment:
- answering questions
- identifying variables
- developing hypotheses
- finding the factors to be kept constant
- creating operational definitions
- designing a investigation
- repeating trials as necessary
- collecting data and interpreting it
- making conclusions
Helpful tips for Conducting a Experiment:
- First you should consider what problem you are trying to find possible solution to.
- Create a hypothesis by thinking about the problem and then predicting what you think will happen as a result of running your experiment.
- When designing your experiment consider the essential design components that are listed at the top of the page
- As a part of your observation during your experiment you should create a statement of relationship. As the (independent variable) (describe the change), the (dependent variable) (describe what happens).
- Be sure to state your findings. Was your hypothesis correct? What happened during it?
- When making conclusions include what occurred during your experiment and what the result was.