Internal Assessment

An Eight-Step Guide

Step One: Brainstorming, Research Question, and Experiment

By the end of this step you will have:

✔︎  Created a mind map and/or list with initial ideas

✔︎  Chosen your variables

✔︎  Written your research question

✔︎  Thought about your experiment 

✔︎  Tested your experiment

Brainstorming ideas

Creating your research question

Thinking about and testing your experiment

Actions

➜  Brainstorm ideas

➜  Create your research question

➜  Think about and test your experiment

Checklist

 

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

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

✔︎  I wrote a research question connecting these variables

✔︎ 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 can collect data at least for five values of the independent variable

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

Questions to ask your teacher

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

✤  Is the research question formulated correctly?

✤  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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