Many businesses and organizations insist that official communications use professional-looking fonts, such as Times New Roman. F
onts characterized as less professional, such as Comic Sans, should be avoided. A student would like to determine if font choice makes a difference in the average grade on a typed response in English classes. There are currently four English classes available from which the student can collect data, and each class has a similar writing assignment. That the start of the assignment, students are randomly assigned a font, either times new Roman or comic sans, and then complete the assignment the teachers grade the assignment and the mean grade for each font is found. What is the response variable in this experiment?
A the font used by each h student
B, the teachers grading the responses
C the grade received on each assignment
D the length of the student response on the assignment
The response variable can be defined as those variables that are considered to be the focus of a question in research or experiment. It is also known as a dependent variable and is marked on the y-axis. The response variable is explained with the help of an explanatory variable, marked on the x-axis. The other names for response variables are y-variables or outcome variables.
In the given case, the response variable is the grade received on each assignment. The grades received by students on each assignment are the main focus of this research.
