Karen, an educational psychologist, is exploring the strength of the relationship between the number of students assigned to a teacher and the performance level of those students. She learns that there is indirect relationship between the performance level of students and the number of students assigned to a teacher. What type of research is this educational psychologist conducting?
What will be an ideal response?
Karen is conducting correlational research because she is seeking to describe the strength of the relation between two or more events or characteristics. Correlational research is useful because the more strongly two events are correlated, the more effectively a researcher can predict one from the other.
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What will be an ideal response?
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