, QUESTION 1 [8] 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
_______. (1) (b) The study examines two variables: gender and
commitment. What is the dependent variable in the professor’s
study? (1) (c) This type of research would be classified as ______
statistics. (1) (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? (1) (e) ______ variables
indicate that there is a difference between categories of objects,
persons or characteristics. (1) (f) Which scale of measurement
uses numbers as labels that distinguish categories? (1) (g)
______ scales of measurement indicate categories that are not
only different from one another, but also different in terms of rank
or order. (1) (h) When participants’ opinions are labelled as
strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree, the labels
are measured on ______ scales. (1) [TURN OVER] 2
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