Month: February 2022

LOW INTEREST RATE EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT/FRINGE BENEFIT When an employer provides a loan to an employee and charges interest, which is below the prescribed rate of interest, then the difference between the prescribed rate and employer’s loan rate is a benefit Read More …

1. The Questionnaire A questionnaire can be defined as a group of printed questions which have been deliberately designed and structured to be used to gather information from respondents. Advantages of using Questionnaire 1. They can be used to reach Read More …

1. Personal Interview A personal interview (i.e face to face) is a two-way conversation initiated by an interviewer to obtain information from a respondent. The differences in roles of interviewer and respondent are pronounced. They are typically strangers, and the Read More …

In practice, most statistical data exist in official and private records that are compiled as part of the routine of the day-to-day activities of public organizations and private firms. Thus, government departments routinely record figures on such matters as births Read More …

Among the many threats to internal validity, we consider the following: History During the time that a research is taking place, some events may occur that confuse the relationship being studied. These are events may either increase or decrease the Read More …

What are the characteristics of a good measurement tool? An intuitive answer to this question is that the tool should be an accurate counter or indicator of what we are interested in measuring. In addition, it should be easy and Read More …

A scale is a device for measuring magnitude or quantity of a variable. Scales may be a series of steps, degrees, a scheme of graded amounts from the highest to lowest, an indicator of relative size; scales may also designate Read More …

In everyday usage, measurement occurs when an established yardstick verifies the height, weight or another feature of a physical object. How well you like a song, a painting, or the personality of a friend is also a measurement. In a Read More …

The research literature disagrees about the meaning of the terms proposition and hypothesis. We define a proposition as a statement about concepts that may be judged as true or false if it refers to observable phenomena. When a proposition is Read More …

There are five (5) types of variables that one is likely to find in a research study, and these are: Dependent variables Independent variables Intervening variables Extraneous variables Moderating variables 1. Independent and Dependent Variables Independent variable is a variable Read More …