Question

Spurling et al. investigated the effects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. in this example, learning strategy is the ________ variable and word retention is the ________ variable.

Answer 1

Learning strategy is the independent variable and word retention is the dependent variable.

A dependent variable is the thing that is being measured or tested by changes in the independent variable. Spurling wanted to test how word retention depended on different learning strategies.