IOP2601 Assignment 4 Due 22 October 2024

IOP2601 22 October 2024

QUESTION 1

You have recently been appointed as a research assistant at UNISA, working alongside a
distinguished professor in the College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS).
Together, you are embarking on an exciting study involving a group of 500 postgraduate
research students. The focus of the study is to explore whether there are differences in the
levels of commitment to research between male and female postgraduate students.

(a) If you were to select 250 of the 500 postgraduate students for this research study, those
selected would be your .

SAMPLE

(b) The study examines two variables: gender and commitment. What is the dependent
variable in the professor’s study?

COMMITMENT

(c) This type of research would be classified as statistics.

INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

(d) In the research article “S. W. Mvana (2023). Teacher Retention: Work Engagement,
Psychological Capital, and Human Resource Retention Practices Satisfaction in South Africa.