At the same time, overviews of control variable practices in neighboring disciplines demonstrate that researchers struggle with selecting, analyzing, and interpreting control variable results. In ...

Controlled variables – The variables that scientists keep the same during an experiment to make sure that a test is fair. Dependant variables – The variable that a scientist measures or observes.

In this activity, students will be able to identify and control variables to design an experiment to see whether the temperature of a solvent affects the speed at which a solute dissolves. Students ...

I introduce the notion of a 'control variable' which gives us a way of seeing how mental causation could be an unproblematic case of causation in general, rather than being some sui generis form of ...

STEP 2 – Identifying variables Identify the independent and dependent variables, including a list of variables to control and how this process will be done.