The student body president proposes that high school students listen to classical music in class. She believes this change would increase student performance in high school. She is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. Identify the independent variable in the study.
Identify the control group in the study.
Provide an example of a valid operational definition of “student performance.”
Explain how random assignment would help establish cause and effect in this experiment.
Explain why it would be difficult to use a double-blind procedure for this study.
Explain how selective attention is related to this study