Mary is gathering data for her dissertation research, and has decided to use the internet to reach a large number of potential p
articipants with a minimum of cost. She creates a list of questions and puts it on a website, and then sends the link out to many people in the hopes that they will go to her site. This inexpensive and rather efficient research design is called a(n)______. a. experiment b. quasi-experiment c. survey d. correlational design e. longitudinal study
This type of research that Mary is engaging in is called a survey. In a survey, questions are usually presented in the form of a questionnaire in order to get data or information from the survey participants. It could be done by phone, mails etc. The person conducting the research receives these data through the responses that the participants give to the questions asked.
