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A group of middle school students were given a short course in speed-reading. The instructor was curious if a monetary incentive would influence performance on a reading test taken at the end of the course. Half the students were offered $5 for obtaining a certain level of performance on the test, the other half were not offered money.
What is the Control group?
What is the Independent Variable?
What is the Dependent Variable?

Answer 1

The control group is the students sans the money. The independent variable would be the 5$. The dependent variable is students receiving the money.

Answer 2

the control group is..$0 group(no monetary initiative)
the independent variable is the monetary incentive ($5 or no money)
the dependent variable is the performance on the reading test