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    This document provides examples of questions to test understanding of measurement scales and operationalization. It includes multiple choice questions about defining nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales. Questions address identifying the scale of different types of variables like age, income, and sport scores. Other questions cover operationalizing abstract concepts, the difference between scales, and that operationalization means rendering variables measurable.

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    The key takeaways are the different measurement levels of variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) and the importance of operationalizing abstract concepts to make them measurable for research.

    The different measurement levels of variables are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Nominal provides the least information while ratio provides the most. Ordinal variables can be ranked but the distances between ranks are not necessarily equal while interval and ratio variables have equal distances between units of measurement.

    Operationalization is rendering an abstract concept measurable by defining its indicators or dimensions. It is important because it allows abstract concepts to be empirically studied and measured for research. Without operationalization, concepts remain undefined and immeasurable.

    Sekaran Research Methods for Business: A Skill-Building Approach, 7/e Test Bank 1

    Chapter 11: Measurement of Variables: Operational Definition – Test


    Bank

    1. Operationalization means:
    a. Designing questionnaires.
    b. Translating a problem definition into a research questions.
    c. Rendering an abstract concept measureable.*
    d. Defining difficult concepts in the research proposal.

    2. What is the type of scale of the variable ‘age’ if it is measured in the following way?
    “What is your age? ____ years old.”
    a. Nominal.
    b. Ordinal.
    c. Interval.
    d. Ratio.*

    3. What is the measurement level of income, measured in the following way:


    “What is your annual gross income?”
    < €15.000
    €20.000 - €30.000
    €30.000 - €45.000
    > € 45.000
    a. Nominal.
    b. Ordinal.*
    c. Interval.
    d. Ratio.

    4. “The measurement level on which a variable is measured is of great influence on the


    possibilities that a researcher has to further describe these variables and thereby also
    determines the value of the data.”
    In light of this remark, indicate which of the following measurement levels provides the most
    valuable data for a variable.
    a. Nominal.
    b. Ordinal.
    c. Interval.
    d. Ratio.*

    5. The difference between an ordinal and ratio scale is that the ordinal scale has an absolute
    zero point.
    a. T
    b. F*

    6. A nominal scale is always dichotomous.


    Sekaran Research Methods for Business: A Skill-Building Approach, 7/e Test Bank 2

    a. T
    b. F*

    7. Army rank (such as soldier, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant etcetera) is a variable with an
    ordinal scale.
    a. T*
    b. F

    8. Temperature is a variable with an interval scale.


    a. T
    b. F*

    9. With which scale can we, for describing central tendency, determine the mode and the
    median, but not the mean?
    a. A nominal scale.
    *b.An ordinal scale.
    c. An interval scale.
    d. A ratio scale.

    10. A sport shooter shoots from a distance of 10 meter 10 times on a cardboard. On this
    board the middle circle with 12 points has the highest value, and the outer circle with 1 point
    the lowest. Shooting next to the board yields 0 points. For every 10 shots the points are
    counted up to a total score. What scale has this total score if the shooter hits the board every
    time?
    a. Nominal.
    b. Ordinal.
    c. Interval.
    *d.Ratio.

    11. What is the operationalization of a variable?


    a. The definition of a variable.
    b. An overview of the subcomponents of a variable.
    c. The characteristics of a variable about which consensus exists between theoreticians.
    *d.The way in which variables are rendered measurable.

    12. What is the measurement level of the question below?


    “What is your income?
    0 < 1000 gross per month
    0 1000-3000 gross per month
    0 3000-5000 gross per month
    0 5000-7000 gross per month
    0 > 7000 gross per month”
    a. Nominal.
    b. Ordinal.*
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    c. Interval.
    d. Ratio.

    13. Operationalizing precedes the definition of a variable.


    a. T
    b. F*

    14. Operationalizing is making a variable measurable.


    a. T*
    b. F

    15. Which of the following answers is a ‘concept’?


    a. Office.
    b. Plant.
    c. Job satisfaction.*
    d. These are all examples of ‘concepts’.

    16. The operationalization of a construct means that there must be looked for as many
    related correlations, dimensions and elements of the construct as possible.
    a. T
    *b.F

    17. The construct ‘hunger’ is a typical example of a construct that must be operationalized
    because it is an abstract and subjective concept.
    *a.T
    b. F

    18. What is the measurement level of the following question?


    “What is your gross income per month? € ”
    a. Non-metric.
    b. Interval.
    c. Ratio.*
    d. None of the above answers is correct.

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