Katelin Is Interested in Examining the Relationship Between Years of Gymnastics

Multiple Choice

Katelin is interested in examining the relationship between years of gymnastics classes taken as a child and osteoporosis as an adult. She is concerned only with females because more girls take gymnastics than do boys and more women have osteoporosis than do men. Katelin addressing this concern and then developing research questions and hypotheses involves which step of the research process?

A) Selection and definition of a problem
B) Execution of procedures
C) Analysis of data
D) Drawing and stating conclusions