When Jenn completes the Student Evaluation of Instruction form at the end of the semester she doesn't really think much about it, she just gives her professor all "5's" indicating that he is great
Jenn's method of completing the evaluation survey would seem to be indicative of the response bias referred to as
a. social desirability.
b. selection.
c. response set.
d. confirmation.
C
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