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).
I planned to test 60 subjects above the age of 16.

2. Below, put the actual sample size and/or repeated measures you completed by the deadline (February
5).
I acquired 46 samples by Tuesday February 5 , 2019.

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.
My goal was to meet with Ms. Jimenez to go over the criteria of creating my own app (tone deaf
test), but it didn’t work out because the day we planned to meet before winter break ended up not
working out for either of us and then due to Ms. Jimenez’s busy schedule made it a little bit difficult to
meet during excursion and by the time regular school came around, it was too close to the due date of the
data. My backup plan was to create a survey that I would send out the sophomores, juniors, seniors,
faculty, and my family members etc. who are over the age of sixteen to answer a series of questions and
take the online NICDC Tone Deaf Test and record their score out of 26. I am comparing the results of
different test subjects with different variables such as age and gender to see if these factors can affect
their tone comprehension.

Procedure
4. Below, paste a copy of your planned steps from your project proposal (#15).
· Create my app with an array of different well-known tunes that’s purpose is to test to see if the
Human Subjects are able to tell whether or not the tunes were recited correctly
·
Set up the ascending and descending tone relationships and have
the human subjects decide whether or not the relationships were ascending or
descending
·
Schedule times for testing all of my Human Subjects, inform them
of what they will be expected to do while I’m conducting the experiment
·
Test my family members over winter break and collect the data from
both tests
·
Test the remaining human subjects during anytime during excursion
or when we get back to school with my tone-deaf test app and the test from the
NICDC
·
Compare the data from both tests (results)
·
Test the accuracy/similarity between the two tests

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
b) explain why you made each change.
Instead of creating an app on my own, I used the NICDC test that I used as a reference during my
research. This is because I was unable to meet with Ms. Jimenez who was going to aid me in creating my
app. I didn’t begin testing people until after excursion, and this was because I was unaware I would have
to change my project. Instead of comparing the two tests, since I wasn’t creating a test of my own, I am
now just comparing the results of people of different ages and genders.

Variables
6. In your proposal, find your standardized (#8) and extraneous variables (#10) and list them in the table
below.
Standardized variables Extraneous
variables

If a human subject/person being tested is under 16 years of age, the results may be I didn’t have any
affected because you cannot be sure that tone recognition is fully developed if you are any extraneous
age under 16. variables.

7. Standardized variable review:

Did you successfully standardize all the variables you planned to?
If not, explain why not.
Yes, I successfully standardized my variable by ensuring that the takers of my survey were over 16 and
had them state their age.

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.
NA
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).
In my opinion, not making the tone-deaf test app of my own which is what I intended to, my have made
my project weaker. Making an app would have been an amazing accomplishment and a good experience
to have, but I can still acquire robust results with my plan.

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 very I’m making I’m struggling: I This is a

strong skills in progress. I feel see some very
this pretty good about improvement weak
it. but it’s really area for
hard. me. I
don’t
feel I’ve
improve
d at all.

Design I think my design

experiments skills are neither
poor nor exception,
but average and I
think I am on the
expected path to
excellence and
making the
expected amount of
progress.
Manage​ time Time
& long-term management has
work always been
something I’ve
had trouble with,
specifically
procrastination,
but I’ve seen
slight progress
throughout this
school year in
this area.

Work​ ​well I think I work

independentl better
y: with focus, independently at
self-reliance, times than in a
& initiative group but also
sometimes struggle
with trusting my
own instincts and
learning to not rely
on the ideas of
others but make
ones of my own.

Own ​your If I am
own learning: experiencing any
take issues with my
responsibility work I will for the
for your most part make
work; know sure to reach out
when you to my teacher and
need help and advocate for
ask for it. myself to ensure
that I’m putting in
the best work
possible.