Research Article

Undergraduates' Criteria to Justify Claims Proposed after Laboratory Experiments

Figure 1

The percentage of each justification criterion students adopted to justify (a) good results or (b) bad results. AR: apparatus error; CM: careful manipulation; LV: literature value; MR: method error; NT: naïve theory; PE: personal experience; PR: personal error; ST: scientifically acceptable theory; TV: theoretically calculated value.
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