Deandre is a new teacher at a local elementary school. He decides to conduct a brief study testing the fifth graders' knowledge of science at the beginning of the school year and at the end of the school year. He will randomly assign students to either a "hands-on" science group that does experiments with each lesson plan or to a "video" science group that assigns videos and online tutorials in support of the science lesson plans. Based on this information which of the following would be considered the dependent variable (DV)?

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The dependent variable (DV) is the outcome that the researcher is interested in measuring or observing to see if it changes under different conditions. In this study, Deandre is interested in measuring the fifth graders' knowledge of science before and after the intervention, making the pretest and posttest of science knowledge the dependent variable.

Deandre Is a New Teacher at a Local Elementary School