Katelin is interested in examining the relationship between years of gymnastics classes taken as a child and osteoporosis as an adult. She is concerned only with females because more girls take gymnastics than do boys and more women have osteoporosis than do men.
-Katelin addressing this concern and then developing research questions and hypotheses involves which step of the research process?
A) Recognition and identification of a topic to be studied
B) Description and execution of procedures
C) Analysis of data
D) Stating the results or implications

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Katelin is in the initial stage of the research process where she identifies a topic to be studied. She has already defined the population she wants to study and narrowed down the variables she wants to investigate. Therefore, the correct choice is A) Recognition and identification of a topic to be studied.

Katelin Is Interested in Examining the Relationship Between Years of Gymnastics