A researcher, Dr. A, designed an experiment in which she wanted to examine the effect of several different learning activities on how well children remembered new information.

Dr. A planned to assign teachers in many different 3rd grade classrooms to use three different ways of teaching their science class material: lecture-based learning, discussion-based learning, and activity-based learning. She was then going to have teachers use the same tests with all of the children to see what they remembered.

However, another researcher, Dr. B, pointed out that if Dr. A ran the experiment that way, she wouldn't really know whether teachers were sticking to teaching exactly the way that they were supposed to. Dr. B was worried that how closely teachers followed the teaching protocols would affect how well children remembered, but that it wasn't going to be measured.

For this question, match what's described to the term that best represents it.

Prompt 1

style of teaching? . ----------- an independent variable

lecture-based learning? ------------------a condition or treatment children's test scores? --------------------------------a dependent variable

how closely teachers stuck to how they were supposed to teach? -----------a lurking variable

I PUT THEM THE WAY I THOUGHT WAS CORRECT, BUT NOT SURE IF THEY ARE RIGHT