Controlled Experiment to Investigate the Correlation between Keystroke Latency and Programming Performance Junisilver Taij This report is submitted as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Honours Programme of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering‚ The University of Western Australia‚ 2005 Abstract Programming is a complicated skill to master‚ and learning to program is complex. The difficulty of first year students studying computer science is that they generally
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hypothesis. Understand how to design an experiment that tests a hypothesis. Explain the elements of a well-designed experiment‚ including controlling the variables. Understand how taking data and analyzing it is important in a scientific method. Understand the difference between qualitative data and quantitative data. Describe how forming conclusions and communicating results are important in a scientific method. Understand that sometimes new hypotheses or new experiments need to be made. MAIN IDEAS/QUESTIONS
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variable that is changing in the experiment. It is sometimes called the manipulated variable. There can only be one independent variable‚ as any more than one can lead to unfair results. A Dependent Variable is the variable that is getting recorded‚ made by the changes of the independent variable. A Controlled Variable is the variables that you must keep constant during the test‚ to ensure the fairness of the test. EXAMPLE An example is an experiment looking at the growth of trees in
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Composition of Concurrent Forces Abstract— The experiment aims to show the relationship of different forces acting at the same time by using different variables namely‚ the equilibrant force‚ the resultant‚ and the given forces Fa and Fb. The equilibrant force is the force that establishes equilibrium while the resultant is the addition of the given forces and is also the opposite of the equilibrant. The objective of the experiment is to determine the resultant of two forces experimentally‚ to
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of the Western Electric Company (1924-32) as a basis to test his theories. These experiments were dubbed the Hawthorne Studies. It consisted of four main stages:- The illumination experiments The relay assembly experiments The interviewing programme The bank wiring observation room The illumination experiments focused on the effect of different intensity of lighting on the productivity. These experiments were however inconclusive‚ as the experimental groups production varied with no relation
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Experimental design is a research method in which researcher tries to examine causal effects by manipulating independent variable under controlled settings and measures whether it produces any change to the dependent variable. In an experiment experimenter deliberately imposes a treatment on a group of objects or subjects in the interest of observing the response. This differs from an observational study‚ which involves collecting and analyzing data without changing existing conditions. In an experimental
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Effect of Clay in Soil on Plant Growth INTRODUCTION: In this experiment‚ the relationship between the amount of clay in the soil and plant growth was measured over a two week time period. The manipulated variable in the experiment was the amount of clay in the soil‚ specifically one hundred and twenty grams of clay mixed with eighty grams of soil‚ and the responding variable was the plant growth. Although clay in soil can be beneficial for plant growth in the sense that is provides good moisture
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answer‚ or what problem are you trying to explain? Hypothesis After reading the lab instructions - but before starting the lab - record your best “educated guess” about each experiment: Experiment 1: Which method of finding the density give you the least percent error and why? Experiment 2: After completing the first experiment‚ answer this question. Which block do you think has the highest density and why? Experimental Design List the materials used in this lab‚ and write a brief explanation of
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the nineteenth century (reviewed in Deary et al.‚ (2011)). Beginning in 1865‚ F.C. Donders became interested if the time taken to perform basic mental processes could be measured. In his early experiments‚ Donders applied electric shocks to the right and left feet of his subjects. In one of his experiments‚ he did two trials with different conditions. In the first trial‚ subjects were not aware which foot will be shocked while in the second trial‚ subjects were aware. He found out the difference
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