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The researcher hypothesizes that students who participate in an after school program emphasizing critical thinking skills will score higher on measures of academic achievement and self-esteem than students who participate in a program emphasizing rote memorization. The independent variables are the type of after school program (critical thinking skills program or rote memorization program). The dependent variables are students' academic achievement scores and self-esteem scores.

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The researcher hypothesizes that students who participate in an after school program emphasizing critical thinking skills will score higher on measures of academic achievement and self-esteem than students who participate in a program emphasizing rote memorization. The independent variables are the type of after school program (critical thinking skills program or rote memorization program). The dependent variables are students' academic achievement scores and self-esteem scores.

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Assignment: Two

An educational researcher is interested in the relationship between students’ participation in

two after school programs and academic achievement. She states the following hypothesis in

the description of her study:

Children who participate in an after school program that emphasizes critical thinking skills

will score higher on measures of academic achievement and self-esteem than students who

participate in a program that emphasizes rote memorization.

What are the variables in this study?

 Critical Thinking Skills

 Academic Achievement

 Self Esteem

 Rote Memorization

What would be good names for the variables?

 CT_Skills

 Academic_Achievement

 Self_Esteem

 Rote_Memorization

Identify the independent variable(s) and dependent variable(s).

 Independent variables are:

Critical Thinking Skills and Rote_Memorization

 Dependent variables are:

 Academic Achievement and Self Esteem


Describe how each variable varies (i.e., whether the variable is categorical or continuous).
Provide justification for why each variable varies the way you describe?

 Critical Thinking Skills as an independent variable can be designed as categorical

(ordinal) in case of evaluate the skill activities using options like (Poor, Good, Very

Good, and Excellent), or as a continuous (scale) of evaluate the skill activities using

scores, for example a score from 1 to 100.

 Rote Memorization as an independent variable can be designed as categorical (ordinal)

in case of evaluating the memorization activity using options like (low, moderate, and

fast), or as a continuous (scale) in case of evaluating the memorization activity using

scores or number of repeating the sentence till memorize it.

 Academic Achievement as a dependent variable must be designed as a continuous

(scale) variable as it will represent the score of students’ academic achievement.

 Self Esteem as a dependent variable must be designed as a continuous (scale) variable

as it will represent the score of students’ self-esteem.

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