If You Decide to Design Your Own Instrument for Quantitative

question 9

Multiple Choice

If you decide to design your own instrument for quantitative data collection rather than modify or locate an existing instrument,you should know that

• A)the instrument will reflect your own biases.
• B)the instrument will be difficult to design.
• C)your advisor will need to give approval.
• D)the instrument will likely modify an existing instrument.

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