Kinds oF Variables & Measurements Flashcards
usually influenced by the predictor variables
Criterion variables
Title of Research: Competencies of Teachers and Students’ Behavior in Selected Schools
Predictor Variable?
competencies of teachers
Title of Research: Competencies of Teachers and Students’ Behavior in Selected Schools
Criterion Variable?
students’ behavior
variables with values that describe a quality or characteristics of a data
Categorical variables.
values cannot be organized in a logical sequence
Nominal
Order of the value is important but the difference between each one is not really known
Ordinal
Numbers-based data
Numerical Variables
order is known and there is True Zero.
Ratio
order is known there is NO True Zero.
Interval
Business Types
Nominal
academic grades such as A, B, C
Ordinal
Temperature
Interval
Height
Ratio
measures of attitudes like strongly agree, disagree or strongly disagree
Ordinal
factors or conditions that are kept unchanged in an experiment
Control Variables