You Are Preparing to Conduct a Study of School Behavior

You are preparing to conduct a study of school behavior, and are interested in how different types of pairings produce different outcomes. Specifically, you want to design a study where you examine four types of student pairings (students who are familiar with each other from the same classroom; students unfamiliar with each other from the same classroom; students familiar with each other from different classrooms; and students unfamiliar with each other from different classrooms). What is still unclear is what sorts of variables you will use to determine the different effects of each type of pairing. (a) Provide an example of a within-dyad variable, between-dyad variable, and mixed variable that would be relevant to this study. (b) Describe a technique you could use to determine whether unfamiliar pairings or pairings from different classrooms would result in process losses or process gains, and provide an example for how that technique might manifest in the context of this larger study.