Hydroponic Growth/Fertilizer Laboratory

Class data & statistics

Class Data

Trimester 1, 2003


I.D. Key

1= complete nutrients

2= P deficient

3= Ca deficient

4= N deficient

5= K deficient


ANOVA test

comparing averages


Sheffe post hoc test:

systematic comparison of averages

 
 

Scoring Matrix

Category

Include

Pts. possible

Pts. earned

Title
Reflect topic variables?
2.5
  

Introduction
water role &
absorption into plants (2 pts.)

essential elements (3 pts.)

-deficiency symptoms (2 pts.)

hypothesis? (3 pts.)
10
  

Methods 
explicit directions?
chart of fertilizer recipes?
7.5
  

Results

 Text- qualitative, descriptive paragraph describing seedling growth appearance (6 pts.)
Data table- quantitative biomass chart (7 pts.)
Statistical interpretation of compared avaerages (7 pts.)
20
  

Discuss/

Conclusion
Explain whether or not typical deficiency symptoms developed? Why or why not?

Reliable method to assess crop plants? explain.

Relate to hypothesis
10