Paper 1 · Teaching Aptitude
In the context of a dynamic teaching environment, which of the following statements is true?
AThe teacher is a dependent variable and the student is an independent variable.
BThe teacher is an independent variable and the student is a dependent variable. ✓ Correct
CBoth teacher and student are intervening variables.
DTeaching is not linked with any variable.
Correct answer: (B) The teacher is an independent variable and the student is a dependent variable. — In the dynamic teaching environment the teacher is an independent variable and the student a dependent variable, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★In the dynamic teaching environment the teacher is an independent variable and the student a dependent variable, so that is the answer.
★The teacher acts as the cause who plans and delivers teaching, which is what an independent variable does.
★The student's learning changes in response to the teaching, which is what a dependent variable does.
★So it is assumed that the independent variable, the teacher, impacts the dependent variable, the student.
★Reversing the roles, or calling both intervening variables, misreads which side acts and which side responds.
★Saying teaching is linked with no variable ignores the cause and effect relation at the heart of the classroom.
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