A researcher is interested in the effects of teaching students problem-solving strategies on their abilities to solve complex mathematics problems. She randomly assigns students to either learn the strategies, or participate in a control group. She then compares their performance on a complex problem-solving task. The student performance scores on the complex problem task are the:
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Moderating variable
d. Mediating variable
Ans: b
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