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2.32 points eBookPrintReferencesCheck my workCheck My Work button is now enabledItem 34 At the end of a semester college students evaluate their instructors by assigning them to one of the following categories: Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average, and Poor. The measurement scale is a(n)

Answer 1

Ordinal Scale

Explanation:

The Ordinal Scale may be described as a type of measurement scale which is mostly used to convey qualitative differences while depicting level of magnitude and rank between the labels. The order of a ordinal Scale matters even though the difference between each cannot be measured. It is mostly employed to convey ideas such as level satisfaction, happiness, performance, grade and so on. For the categoroea given above :

Excellent represents the peak ; then Good, followed by Average, then, Below Average, and lastly Poor.