Dr.Kenney conducts a study in which she gives some students chosen randomly)logically organized learning material; she gives other students the same material presented in a haphazard, unpredictable sequence.She finds that students with the organized material remember more.This study can best be described as:

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This is an experimental study because Dr. Kenney is manipulating the independent variable (organization of material) to observe its effect on the dependent variable (students' memory). It is not descriptive because it is not simply observing and describing a phenomenon, nor is it correlational because there is not a relationship between variables being measured. It could potentially be theoretical, but without more information on the specific theory being tested, it is best described as an experimental study.

DrKenney Conducts a Study in Which She Gives Some Students