Professor Sanders Wants to Study How Constant Distraction While Taking

question 97

Multiple Choice

Professor Sanders wants to study how constant distraction while taking an exam will affect student performance. She randomly assigned her students to different classrooms where the experimental group would receive a predetermined number of distractions while taking the exam. In this study, the independent variable is ______________ and the dependent variable is _________.

• A) The classrooms where the exams were taken; the number of distractions
• B) The number of distractions; the performance scores on the exam
• C) The performance scores on the exam; the students taking the exam
• D) The students taking the exam; the classrooms where the exams were taken

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