Step One

Internal Assessment

A Six-Step Guide

Step One: Getting Started

In this step you will:

✔︎  Create a mind map and/or list with initial ideas.

✔︎  Choose your independent and dependent variables.

✔︎  Formulate your research question.

✔︎  Think about the details of your experiment.

✔︎  Test your experiment.

Brainstorm Ideas

Create Your Research Question

Think About and Test Your Experiment

Checklist

 

Brainstorm Ideas:

✔︎  I have a mind map and/or a list with my initial ideas.

Create Your Research Question:

✔︎  I have an independent and a dependent variable for my experiment.

✔︎  I wrote a research question connecting these variables.

Think About and Test Your Experiment:

✔︎ I thought about the steps of my experiment based on the research question.

✔︎  I listed the equipment that I need for my experiment.

✔︎  I verified that I have access to all this equipment.

✔︎  I set up the equipment to test my experiment.

✔︎  I collected some data at the lowest value of my independent variable.

✔︎  I collected some data at the highest value of my independent variable.

✔︎  I verified that it is easy to change my independent variable

✔︎  I verified that it is easy to measure my dependent variable

✔︎  I verified that I get a good range of values for my dependent variable

Questions to ask your teacher

Create Your Research Question:

  Are the variables chosen correctly, given the context of the investigation?

  Is the research question formulated correctly?

Think About and Test Your Experiment:

  Is all necessary equipment available (at school) that is needed to carry out the experiment?

  Does the experiment have the potential to provide sufficient and relevant qualitative and/or quantitative data to carry out data analysis and evaluation?

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