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strategies to ensure that these variables are kept constant,On 10/30/2006 11:00 PM, thecraftyphantom@australia.edu wrote:
The syllabus that I teach states,
"A student: justifies the appropriateness of a particular
investigation
plan:
11.2 plan first-hand investigations to:
a) demonstrate the use of the terms dependent and independent to
describe variables involved in the investigation
b) identify variables that needed to be kept constant, develop >>
be kept constant?and demonstrate the use of a control"
I have no clear idea what that means. Are the independent >>variables
supposed to be kept constant? Are the dependent variables >>supposed to
Does the rest of the syllabus look like the passage quoted above?
If so, you should gather the villagers, get some torches and
pitchforks,
and march on the state offices.