CRIESTEFIEL ANN S.

LOLO
GRADE XII-GATES

Practical Research II
Quarter 1 – Module 3
Nature of Variables

Instructions: Design a graphic organizer encapsulating the importance of research in all

areas/fields of discipline.

Quantitative
Research and
therefore the
Social Sciences

Quantitative
Research and
Communication
Quantitative
Research in
Importance of research
Education and
in all areas/fields of
Psychology
discipline.

 Quantitative
Research and
Anthropology Quantitative
Research and
therefore the
Behavioral
Sciences

Quantitative Research Research and

and Medical Education medical specialty
 ACTIVITY
TOPIC LEARNING/INSIGHTS/ UNDERSTANDING
Meaning of Variables are units of study, variety of which include gender,
Variables age, socio-economic status, attitudes or behaviors like bullying,
favoritism, among others.
Dependent people that show the results or results or outcomes of the
Variables influence of the independent variables.
Independent People who cause, influence, or affect outcomes. they're
variables invariably called treatment, manipulated, antecedent, or
predictor variables.

Relationship The statistical relationship between two variables is referred to

between the two as their correlation
basic variables
Role of extraneous Threaten the internal validity of your study by providing
variables alternative explanations for your results.
Confounding People who don't seem to be actually measured but they exist.
variables
Essence of Variables are among the essential concepts of research,
variables alongside with measurement, validity, reliability, cause and
effect and theory.
Types of attribute Age, gender, blood group, color of eyes, etc. 
variable
Differences among Independent variables standalone which they do not seem to
variables be changed by the alternative variables you're trying to
measure.
Dependent variables are what researchers have an interest in.
They depend on other factors.

Control variables vs.  Controlled variable is something you know could affect your
Controlled results that you want to rule out, and a control is a sample (or
variables set of samples) that help you do so.
Nuisance variables  An unwanted variable that is typically correlated with the
hypothesized independent variable within an experimental
study
ANALYSIS
1.Variable
2. Nominal
3. CONTROL
4. Ratio
5. Confounding
6. Intervening
7. Ordinal
8. Independent
9. Dependent
10. Interval

APPLICATION

Statement Independent Variable Dependent

Variable
1. The effect of structural
empowerment and organizational
commitment on nurses' job satisfaction

2. factors influencing
smoking behavior among Saudi
adolescent boys
3. The Effectiveness of a Pressure Ulcer
care on the Prevalence of
Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
4. Use of social media and Internet to
obtain health information by working
mothers
5. Nursing students' perceptions of
teamwork in a hospital clinical setting.

6. The effect of different patient

education methods on quality of bowel
cleanliness in outpatients receiving
colonoscopy examination
7. Impact of Nurses’ perception for
highly effective interventions to
prevent adult inpatient fall injuries on
the prevalence of fall injuries in surgical
wards.

REFLECT

3 Things I learned today is the different variables

2 Things I found interesting about the goal of the variables

1 1 Question I still have…

none

LEARN MORE!
Dependent variable- How the burning of plastic in the environment transparently is
hazardous?

Independent variable- The type of light the tomato plant is grown under
POST TEST
1. C
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. B
7. B
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. A
12. C
13. B
14. C
15. A