IOP2601
ASSIGNMENT 4 2024
D U E : 22 OCTOBER 2024
SEMESTER 2 2024
, IOP2601 22 October 2024
QUESTION 1
You have recently been appointed as a research assistant at UNISA, working alongside a
distinguished professor in the College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS).
Together, you are embarking on an exciting study involving a group of 500 postgraduate
research students. The focus of the study is to explore whether there are differences in the
levels of commitment to research between male and female postgraduate students.
(a) If you were to select 250 of the 500 postgraduate students for this research study, those
selected would be your .
SAMPLE
(b) The study examines two variables: gender and commitment. What is the dependent
variable in the professor’s study?
COMMITMENT
(c) This type of research would be classified as statistics.
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
(d) In the research article “S. W. Mvana (2023). Teacher Retention: Work Engagement,
Psychological Capital, and Human Resource Retention Practices Satisfaction in South Africa.
Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 9, 93-
105,” Mvana hypothesised that work engagement is positively linked to satisfaction with human
resource retention practices. What is the independent variable in this hypothesis?
SATISFACTION
(e) variables indicate that there is a difference between categories of objects,
persons or characteristics.
NOMINAL
(f) Which scale of measurement uses numbers as labels that distinguish categories?
NOMINAL
(g) scales of measurement indicate categories that are not only different from one
another, but also different in terms of rank or order.
ORDINAL
(h) When participants’ opinions are labelled as strongly agree, agree, disagree, and
strongly disagree, the labels are measured on scales.
ORDINAL
ASSIGNMENT 4 2024
D U E : 22 OCTOBER 2024
SEMESTER 2 2024
, IOP2601 22 October 2024
QUESTION 1
You have recently been appointed as a research assistant at UNISA, working alongside a
distinguished professor in the College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS).
Together, you are embarking on an exciting study involving a group of 500 postgraduate
research students. The focus of the study is to explore whether there are differences in the
levels of commitment to research between male and female postgraduate students.
(a) If you were to select 250 of the 500 postgraduate students for this research study, those
selected would be your .
SAMPLE
(b) The study examines two variables: gender and commitment. What is the dependent
variable in the professor’s study?
COMMITMENT
(c) This type of research would be classified as statistics.
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
(d) In the research article “S. W. Mvana (2023). Teacher Retention: Work Engagement,
Psychological Capital, and Human Resource Retention Practices Satisfaction in South Africa.
Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 9, 93-
105,” Mvana hypothesised that work engagement is positively linked to satisfaction with human
resource retention practices. What is the independent variable in this hypothesis?
SATISFACTION
(e) variables indicate that there is a difference between categories of objects,
persons or characteristics.
NOMINAL
(f) Which scale of measurement uses numbers as labels that distinguish categories?
NOMINAL
(g) scales of measurement indicate categories that are not only different from one
another, but also different in terms of rank or order.
ORDINAL
(h) When participants’ opinions are labelled as strongly agree, agree, disagree, and
strongly disagree, the labels are measured on scales.
ORDINAL
