What Are the Purposes of Completing a Pilot Study

question 2

Multiple Choice

What are the purposes of completing a pilot study?

• A)It provides nominal and ordinal data with which the researcher can construct better instruments.
• B)It helps identify problems the researcher might encounter while collecting data.
• C)It justifies the existence of a research gap.
• D)It gives the researcher preliminary data to present the institutional review board in order to obtain permission to conduct research.
• E)It provides an idea of the time lines of the proposed study, including instrument-completion and subject recruitment.

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