Edgar and Holly Are Two Graduate Students and Have Been

Multiple Choice

Edgar and Holly are two graduate students and have been assigned to read transcripts from focus group interviews of employees regarding a company's promotion policy and assign numerical values to various phrases. For example, they are to put a "1" for all statements that are positive and a "2" for all that are negative regarding the policy. What task are they performing?

A) Data reduction
B) Verification
C) Data display
D) Data verification
E) Coding