A professor is interested in whether taking online quizzes overa chapter before discussing the chapter in class will improvestudents’ test performance. The professor is interested inexamining the testing effect, the finding that taking a memory testnot only assesses what one knows, but also enhances laterretention. The professor hypothesizes that students who takechapter quizzes will score higher on the midterm test than studentswho do not take chapter quizzes.
1. Design and describe an experiment that could test thishypothesis. Describe how this design could test the hypothesis.
2. Identify the IV and DV.
3. Provide an operational definition of each variable.