Your Class Is Doing a Research Study on the Academic

Multiple Choice

Your class is doing a research study on the academic success of college and university students. It has been suggested that two of the issues that many students face today which may affect their level of academic success are being employed in order to pay tuition, and peer pressure to party. Answer the following five questions designed to assess your ability to apply steps in the research process. The class has decided that they would like to determine if there is a relationship between academic success, peer pressure and employment among their school's 15,000 students. What is the most effective research design?

A) have a random sample of students meet for a face-to-face interview
B) design an experiment that compares students who are employed and students who claim to feel peer pressure
C) observe groups of students' behaviour at a party
D) have a random sample of students complete a survey questionnaire