Elaine is interpreting her data and realizes that the amount of time she spent at one of the schools is substantially smaller and that she has very little data from that site. She believes it is because she did not 'click' with the principal of one of the five schools she is studying and therefore that school is not well represented in her data.
-The school is important for Elaine's study. Of the following, which is the most appropriate way to remedy Elaine's problem?
A) Confront the principal and then collect more data.
B) Extend the collection and have another researcher collect data.
C) Recognize the problem and eliminate the school from the study.
D) Change the nature of research questions and drop the school.

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This option allows for more data to be collected from the school in question without potentially biasing the data. Another researcher may have better rapport with the principal or different techniques for collecting data that could yield more useful information. Confronting the principal could create hostility and bias future interactions. Eliminating the school from the study would limit the generalizability of the results. Changing the research questions would alter the study design and objectives.

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