Mary Is Interested in Determining If Active Learning Strategies Promote

Mary is interested in determining if active learning strategies promote better student learning than passive learning strategies. She teaches groups of volunteer students for one hour, using active learning strategies with half of the students and passive learning strategies with the other half of the students. The students are then given a test over the material and Mary records the number of items each student answers correctly. In this study, the independent variable is __________ and the dependent variable is __________.

A) type of learning strategy; number of correct answers
B) number of correct answers; type of learning strategy
C) number of correct answers; the test
D) type of learning strategy; the test