A Graduate Student Conducted Qualitative Interviews with 30 People on Their

Multiple Choice

A graduate student conducted qualitative interviews with 30 people on their experience of illegal drug use. She learned about a factor related to illegal drug use that had not been considered in previous studies. As such, she developed a theory with this new information and created a quantitative survey to assess her new hypotheses. This is an example of which of the following?

A) forming hypotheses
B) the reserach circle
C) identifying a research question
D) direction of association