Explanatory research is

A) evaluation research throughout the program or policy being evaluated.
B) evaluation research after the program or policy being evaluated ends.
C) research in which a researcher seeks to test theories and addresses the question of why events or
patterns occur in social reality.
D) a technique developed by economists in which the positive and negative consequences of something are
estimated, given a dollar value, then balanced against one another.


C

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