Question

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

Answer: This type of measurement scale is called "ORDINAL SCALE".

Explanation: Ordinal scale is a level of measurement that shows the ranks of data, by categorizing them in groups of performance using a systematic relation.

This scale show the performance of a data without telling the degree of the performance.

For the student to categorize the performance of their instructor from excellent to poor. This is Ordinal scale because it doesn't show the degree of performance, but only tells the level of performance. An instructor with 91% and another with 92% may be categorized in the same level of performance as excellent, but the degree of performance differs.