Information Provided by Different

Scales

Scale
Type of Information Provided
Category
(Name)
Order
(Rank)
Interval
(Distance)
Zero and can
Multiply
(Not Used)
Nominal X
Ordinal X X
Interval X X X
Ratio X X X X
Example of Data
The students scores in English Grammar test.
Nominal Scales
High, middle, and low scores.
Ordinal Scales
The students rank in the test.
Interval Scales
The interval of their scores.
Ratio scales
No ratio Scales.
Example Case
A teacher discovered that many of his students had been
studying Spanish while they were studying three years of
French in his program. He decided to investigate whether the
simultaneous study of another Latin-based language, Spanish,
had any effect on achievement in courses. There were several
variables that he did not want to cloud his results, so he
looked only at data from 17 year old female students whose
native language was English. From this group, he randomly
selected 30 who had simultaneously studied Spanish and 30
who had not. He then compared the average grades in French
of these two groups. He was also interested in any effect that
intelligence, as measured by nonverbal IQ test would have on
the relationship between the study of Spanish and the
students grades in French.
Classify the Research Data
Nominal Scales
The group which had simultaneously studied Spanish
and the one which had not.
Ordinal Scales
The students rank of their average grades in French.
Interval Scales
The students scores of their average grades in French.
Ratio Scales
There is no ratio scales because there is no students
with zero knowledge of Spanish.
Example Case
In an English class in Indonesia, a teacher found a
variation of pronunciation /b/, /d/, and /g/ in final
position of the Javanese students. Thus, she want to
know whether the Javanese dialect differentiate their
pronunciation of /b/, /d/, and /g/ of English word in
final position. The class is consisting of 30 students. 20
students come from the bandek dialect (Semarang,
Solo, Temanggung, Etc) and 10 students come from
Ngapak dialect (Cilacap, Purbalingga, Kebumen, etc).
The teacher held a test and count their correct
pronunciation of those consonants in final position.
Then the result is compared.
Classify the Research Data
Nominal Scales
The bandek and ngapak students.
Ordinal Scales
Their rank in the test.
Interval Scales
The score of their test.
Ratio Scales
There is no ratio scales because all students have
the knowledge about those consonants
pronunciation in final position.