Professor Stewart is beginning a study of how first year students adjust to college life. Based on his twenty years of college teaching, he believes that students will differ with respect to their academic abilities, motivation to attend college and family support. He believes that there are six categories that reflect where students fall along these dimensions. Stewart and the students in his
research methods classes will be interviewing freshmen. Stewart's development of these categories is an example of
a. anticipatory data reduction.
b. coding.
c. data displays.
d. anticipatory socialization.
e. memoing.
a
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