controlled variable - Science-Education-Research

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A controlled variable is a factor that is held constant across different conditions/across time in an experimental study.

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Didactic control conditions
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Confounding variables

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge. View all posts by Keith