For an experiment comparing two methods of teaching social skills training to autistic children, the independent variable is _____________ and the dependent variable is ______________.

Question

a.
teaching methods; the autistic children

b.
the autistic children; the social skills that are learned

c.
the social skills that are learned; the autistic children

d.
teaching methods; the social skills that are learned

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

d. teaching methods; the social skills that are learned

In this context, the independent variable is the teaching methods being compared, and the dependent variable is the outcome measured, which is the social skills that the autistic children learn as a result of those methods.