A researcher studies achievement by children in poorly funded elementary schools. She develops a model that posits parent involvement as an important variable. She believes that parent involvement has an impact on children by increasing their motivation to do school work. Thus, in her model, greater parent involvement leads to higher student motivation, which in turn creates higher student achievement. Student motivation is what kind of variable in this study?
A) Manipulated variable
B) Extraneous variable
C) Confounding variable
D) Mediating or intervening variable

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Student motivation is a mediating or intervening variable because it explains the process through which parent involvement affects student achievement.

A Researcher Studies Achievement by Children in Poorly Funded Elementary