Name: Delos Reyes Gianna

12 - Discipline
Activity 1

Which variable is manipulated by researcher?

- INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
Which of the following is an example of a quantitative variable?
- HEIGHT
A type of variable that represents categories and can be ordered?
- ORDINAL

Activity 2
1. Independent: Three groups of students places in the classroom
Dependent: 18 degree Celsius, 20 degree Celsius, 25 degree Celsius
Extraneous: Math exam scores of the student that were taken and compared to the other groups

2. Independent: Online seller wants to know if the indication of the price on Facebook posts will
attract consumers more.
Dependent: 50 products for sale on Facebook, 25 of which he indicated the price, and 25 products
did not have price.
Extraneous: He identified which product has the greatest sales

3. Independent: House wife wanted to know which soil is the best for carrot plants: the soil from
online seller, soil from backyard compost, or soil underneath the nearby bamboo tree.
Dependent: She planted 30 carrot seed in each soil source
Extraneous: Comparing the growth of the carrot after a month

4. Independent: Jenny wants to know which charger and cable combination she borrow will fill her
phone battery fastest
Dependent:
Charger Cable Combination
Brother BB bb BBbb
Sister SS ss SSss
Mother MM mm MMmm

Extraneous: The charging time of her phone was then compared based on every charger.
5. Independent: Teacher wants to know which teaching g strategy (peer teaching, tutorial basis,
lesson discussion) is the most effective in improving students’ academic performance in research.
Dependent: She divided the class into 4 groups and teach them in different strategies.
Extraneous: Compared the academic performance of the each group.
 Performance Task
1. Compare and contrast the qualitative variable and quantitative variable?
A quantitative variable is one that is represented in numbers. Your height, weight, and age
for instance. A qualitative variable is not numeric. Your gender, the color of your eyes, and
whether your love for music is “high”, “medium” or “low”.
2. Why are dependent and independent variable not applicable in descriptive research?
Because Descriptive studies only describe the current state of a variable, so there are no
presumed cause or effects, therefore no independent and dependent variables
3. How important is it to the researcher to identify the type of variable used in the study?
It is important because they guide the researchers to persue their studies with maximum
curiosity. Dependent and independent variables are also important because they determine the
cause and effects in research
4. How does confounding variable affect to the validity of the study?
A variable is considered to be confounding because it provides an alternative explanation
for your result that is an alternative explanation for the relationship or differences between the
variables and groups that you are measuring. This affects the validity of your results.
5. When do we use discrete, continuous, nominal, and ordinal?
Discrete is used when we talks about like age, shoe size, number of some thing. While in
Continuous, it is used when we talks about height, weight, temperature, and income. Nominal
Variable is simply defines groups of subjects, ordinal denotes that a variable is ranked in a certain
order.