Professor Wise, a faculty member in an educational psychology department at a major university, is telling a colleague from the physics department why research on education is difficult to do. Which of the following arguments is he most likely to make?
a. Many factors affect educational processes and outcomes.
b. Conducting educational research is prohibitively expensive.
c. Education is an art that cannot be studied scientifically.
d. There is no consensus on the meaning of education.
A
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