When designing a procedure for asking students to rate who among their peers is popular, Dr. Shaw should try to make sure that

a. the children completing the ratings are popular themselves.
b. the children completing the ratings are neither popular nor unpopular themselves.
c. she and the children have the same connotations of popularity in mind.
d. she also obtains parent and teacher ratings of student popularity.


C

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