Jackie is interested in students perceptions of their faculty. Her college uses a standard faculty evaluation form that asks students a series of questions regarding their performance in the course and their evaluation of the instructors effectiveness. Jackie asks the dean if there is a relationship between the students expected course grades and instructor evaluations.

(a) Rewrite Jackies question as a hypothesis.

(b) What is the independent variable?

(c) Is the independent variable a subject or a manipulated independent variable?

(d) What is the dependent variable?