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.