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A university teacher conducts research study where lecture-cum demonstration method is used to assess the effect on students' level of participation in terms of the socio-economic status (SES) of their family and its habitat. Which variable in this study will be called an independent variable? 

A university teacher conducts research study where lecture-cum demonstration method is used to assess the effect on students' level of participation in terms of the socio-economic status (SES) of their family and its habitat. Which variable in this study will be called an independent variable?  Correct Answer SES of their family

Variable:

  • A variable, as the name implies, is something that varies.
  • A variable is “a thing that is changeable” or “a quantity that may have a number of different values.”
  • True, a variable is something that has at least two values.

Variable Description
Independent variable
  • An independent variable or stimulus variable is that factor manipulated or selected by the experimenter in his attempt to ascertain its relationship to an observed phenomenon.
  • The other name for independent variables is Predictor(s).
  • The independent variables are called as such because independent variables predict or forecast the values of the dependent variable in the model.
  • The independent variable is the cause. Its value is independent of other variables in your study.
Dependent variable
  • A dependent variable is the factor that appears, disappears, or varies as the experimenter introduces, removes, or varies the independent variable.
  • The dependent variable is a measure of the behavior of the subject.
  • The dependent variable is the response that the person or animal makes.
  • This response is generally measured using at least one of several different dimensions. The dimensions are –
    • frequency – Number of times that a particular behavior occurs,
    • duration - the amount of time that behavior lasts.
    • latency –the amount of time between and when the behavior is actually performed
    • force – the intensity or strength of behavior.

Important Points

  • In the above example, SES of their family is the independent variable as it is the predictor and the cause which will lead to a change in the level of participation (effect).
  • As socio economic status changes the participation would change

However, in the official answer key option 'lecture-cum demonstration method' is marked the correct answer.

Related Questions

A university teacher wants to study the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement motivation of graduates enrolled for computer science. Which research method will be appropriate to use in this context ?
S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.
P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.
Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.
R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.
S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university.
S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.

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