Question

Fourth-grade classrooms in several elementary schools are randomly assigned to different antibullying training programs at the beginning of the school year. The school district keeps track of the number of incidents of bullying in each classroom.

This study is an example of __________ study.

Answer 1

experimental study.

Explanation:

This study is an example of an experimental study.

The type of training program is the independent variable. The number of incidents of bullying is the dependent variable.

Since the participants of our study are affected directly in the research (the fourth-grade children) by not training against anti-bullying, the study is experimental research.

An independent variable is one that is somehow controlled or adjusted to evaluate the effects of a different variable, the dependent. Since we control whether we do bullying training here or not, our kind of training program is our independent variable, which is our dependent variable since we measure its impact on instances of bullying no.