Discuss whether and how you could study the effects of parental divorce on students' school achievement using an experiment, survey, observation, and interviews. If you could not use a particular method, explain why not
If you could, briefly explain the process you would follow.
What will be an ideal response?
Experiment — can't be done, because the independent variable, parents' divorce, can't be manipulated. Survey — ask a sample of parents and/or students a variety of questions, mostly closed-ended, about the family (including marital status) and school achievement (grades, test scores). Compare academic achievement of students from divorced or intact families. Observation — not practical. How would you observe whether or not parents are divorced, and how would you observe grades? Interviews — ask questions similar to those in surveys, but conduct the research face-to-face with open-ended questions.
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