The administration of Midwest State University wants to know if the arrangement of chairs affects student participation in classrooms. What would be a good operational definition of student participation in an experiment designed to measure this relationship?
A. Class size: under 50 or over 50
B. Number of emails sent to the professor each week
C. Number of pages of the text the students read for class
D. Frequency with which students ask questions
Answer: D
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