2018-2019 Science Fair

Assess how you conducted your experiment.

● Please move this document to your s​ hared Biology folder.

● To complete this, you will need to refer to your project proposal.
● After you answer all the questions, remember to ​submit the document in Canvas​.

Sample size
1. Below, put what you planned for sample size and/or repeated measures (#9 in experimental proposal).
Around 50 people

2. Below, put the actual sample size and/or repeated measures you completed by the deadline (February
5). 67 responses

3. If there are differences between your initial plan and what you completed by the deadline, explain
a) why they are different, and
b) what you could have done differently to reach your goal on time.
I reached my goal(s) on time, in fact, I met them before when I had planned to.

Procedure
4. Below, paste a copy of your planned steps from your project proposal (#15).
● You send the form to the UL student body
● Students can choose whether or not to participate
● Volunteers fill out the form based on their Canvas grades and the data is submitted to me
● I sift through the data and find correlation between variables

5. Carefully look over your initial plans. In a numbered or bullet-pointed list below,
a) identify in detail things you actually did differently, and
My outline was pretty basic because I didn’t really know ​exactly​ what I wanted my results to be but I
followed the steps in my actual experiment.
b) explain why you made each change.
I adjusted small parts of the plan according to your suggestions just to make the form more
comprehensible and my workload lighter.
Variables
6. In your proposal, find your standardized (#8) and extraneous variables (#10) and list them in the table
below.
Standardized variables Extraneous variables

Anonymity Dishonest answers

Not enough data

7. Standardized variable review:

Did you successfully standardize all the variables you planned to?
If not, explain why not.
Yes, I didn’t have many to begin with but I just made sure that everyone’s answers would be anonymous.

8. Extraneous variable review:

Were there other factors (that you did not originally list) that you think could have affected your results?
Identify them and explain your answer.
There weren’t any extraneous variables that I hadn’t already considered. So I don’t think my results were
affected in any way by something I hadn’t thought of.

Impact on Results
9. Think about all the ways the implementation of your experiment differed from your initial plans (your
answers to questions above).
Discuss how these changes may make your project stronger and/or make it weaker (i.e. make your
results more reliable or less reliable).
Sifting through the data was a bit more difficult than I had initially thought but as time went on it got a lot
easier to calculate my averages and just sort thought everything in general. This made it slightly more
difficult and discouraging towards the beginning but I spent a weekend working on it and I got most of it
done and everything after that was adding the occasional one line of data.

Reflection on learning
In August, y’all shared your thoughts on what the point of school is. Many of your responses involved
building skills. You may recognize some of them in this list below, which has a few of my top priorities for
skills to build in this class.

10. Read over the skills and indicate with a comment where you feel you are with each, at this point in the
year.

I think I have I’m making I’m struggling: I see This is a very weak
very strong progress. I feel some improvement area for me. I don’t feel
skills in this pretty good about but it’s really hard. I’ve improved at all.
it.
Design I feel like my
experiments experiment was
designed pretty
well but you
definitely helped
me

Manage​ time & I was on top of

long term work all of the work
and completed
it BEFORE the
marker date

Work​ ​well Like I said

independently: before, I
with focus, completed all
self-reliance, & of my work
initiative before the
assigned date
and to the
quality that I
had intended

Own ​your own I met with you

learning: take a few times
responsibility for when I really
your work; needed it and
know when you it helped a lot
need help and so I think
ask for it. that’s taking
responsibility
for my work