Representing Data

Question 1

How is quantitative data represented?

Answer 1

Graphs and tables of raw scores

Question 2

What are raw scores?

Answer 2

The original scores already collected for individual participants

Question 3

How is qualitative data represented?

Answer 3

Transcripts

Question 4

What is a transcript?

Answer 4

word-for-word written account

Question 5

When are bar graphs used?

Answer 5

when representing data divided into categories such as discrete data

Question 6

What is discrete data?

Answer 6

Data divided into categories

Question 7

What type of readings do bar graphs involve?

Answer 7

Zero Readings

Question 8

What are Histograms used to represent?

Answer 8

Continuous data

Question 9

What does the bar in a histogram represent?

Answer 9

Score

Question 10

What type of data is used in histograms?

Answer 10

Continuous-numerical from scale where in theory there is no intervals

Question 11

What are histograms useful for?

Answer 11

Large amounts of data

Question 12

What do line graphs represent?

Answer 12

Continuous data in numerical form

Question 13

What are the characteristics of a line graph?

Answer 13

The points on a graph which are connected by a line joining all points together

Question 14

What can line graphs be used for?

Answer 14

To make estimations

Question 15

What does a scatter gram represent?

Answer 15

Relationship between 2 variables

Question 16

What doesn’t a scatter gram show?

Answer 16

A difference