EDF-202 Statistics of Education

Midterm Examination

Name:______________________________________________________________

I. Multiple Choice: Write the letter before the number that corresponds to the correct answer
1. Which of the following variables according to scale of measurements is a ratio?
A. Nationality of the tourist in Hundred Island Alaminos City, Pangasinan.
B. Number of tons of rice harvested in Capas Tarlac.
C. Opinion of the Pilipino people on how satisfied are they with their job?
D. How often Pilipino people read newspaper?
2. Which of the following variable is qualitative?
I. Years in service
II. Mother Occupation
III. Proportion of Households with Sanitary Toilet Facility.
IV. Type of scholarship enjoyed by the college of teacher education students from a certain State
University and Colleges in Region I.
A. I and IV B. I and III C. II and IV D. II and III
3. Identify the continuous variables on the following variables?
I. Land area per square meter.
II. Weights of new born baby
III. Registered marriages
IV. Household size
V. Number of overseas Filipino workers
A. I and II B. III and IV C. I and V D. III and V
4. What is implied by a positively skewed score distribution?
A. The mean, mode, and median are equal.
B. Most of the scores are high.
C. The mode is high.
D. Most of the scores are low.
5. Which statement best describe a negatively skewed score distribution?
A. All the examinees got scores above the mean.
B. The value of the median and mode are equal.
C. The value of the mode corresponds to low score.
D. The value of the median is higher than the value of the mode.
6. Which is correct about median?
A. It is a measure of variability.
B. It is the most stable measure of central tendency.
C. It is a measure of stability.
D. It is significantly affected by extreme scores.
7. In central tendency, what is/are more appropriate when the score distribution is not badly skewed?
A. Median and mode B. Mean C. Mode D. Median
8. What would be most likely the distribution if a class is composed of bright students?
A. Platykurtic C. skewed to the left
B. skewed to the right D. very normal
9. The distribution of a data is approximately normally distributed when
A. There is an outlier.
B. The skewness value of the data is beyond −2𝑆𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑜 2𝑆𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑤
C. The kurtosis of the data is beyond −2𝑆𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑘𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 2𝑆𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑘𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠.
D. The skewness and kurtosis value fall within −2𝑆𝑒 𝑡𝑜 2𝑆𝑒 of skewness and kurtosis respectively.
10. Which of the following measures is more affected by an extreme score?
A. Semi-interquartile range B. Median C. Mode D. Mean
11. Robert’s raw score in the Mathematics class is 45 which is equal to 96th percentile. What does this mean?
A. 96 % of Robert’s classmates got a score higher than 45.
B. 96 % of Robert’s classmates got a score lower than 45.
C. Robert’s score is less than 45% of his classmates.
 D. Robert’s score is higher than 96% of his classmates.

12. Give the boundaries of 3.25 meters.

a. 3.215-3.225 B. 3.15-3.35 C. 3.15-3.255 D. 3.245-3.255
13. The subjects of this study are the customers of the Capitol Resort Hotel in Lingayen Pangasinan. The
researcher finds that the level of satisfaction of the customers in the products and services of the hotel is
not significantly different according to their educational attainment. Identify the independent and
dependent variable(s).
A. IV- Level of satisfaction, DV- Educational Attainment
B. IV- Educational Attainment, DV- Level of Satisfaction
C. IV- Customers, DV - Educational Attainment
D. IV- Researcher, DV- Level of satisfaction
14. Table 2.5 below shows the distribution of the 240 students using contingency table according to their
academic performance (X) and mastery goal orientation (Y).
Mastery Goals (Binned) Total
Low High
F P F P
Beginning 13 92.86 1 7.14 14
Developing 106 92.98 8 7.02 114
Academic
Approaching Proficient 24 82.76 5 17.24 29
Performance
Proficient 45 60.81 29 39.19 74
Advance 2 22.22 7 77.78 9
Total 190 50 240
What is the prevailing descriptive academic performance of the respondents with high mastery goal?
A. Developing C. Approaching Proficient
B. Proficient D. Advance
15-17. The data below represents the number of Sanitary Landfill in each region in the Philippines in the year
2012.

Region CAR 1 2 4 NCR 4-A 4-B 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Caraga ARMM

N 1 2 3 4 2 9 5 1 3 6 1 0 1 1 3 1 1
Source: Ecological Solid Waste Management (R.A. 9003 series of 2000)
National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC)
Environmental Management Bureau
15. What is the percentage of sanitary landfill in region 2?
A. 6.82% B. 7.82% C. 8.82% D. 9.82%
16. Find 𝐷6.
A. 10.8 B. 4.8 C. 3.8 D. 2.8
17. What is the percentile rank of Region 2?
A. 54.53 B. 56.76 C. 59.76 D. 67.65
18-24. The frequency polygon below represents the frequency distribution of the number of standard rooms
used as a classroom in public schools in the Municipality of San Fernando City La-Union as of March 2012.

16 15

14
12
Number of Schools

10
8 6
6
4 3

2 1 1
0 0
0
-1 6 13 20 27 34 41
Number of Standard rooms
 Source: Department of Education
18. What types of variable are in the study?
A. Quantitative B. Qualitative C. Continuous D. Parametric
19. What level of measurement are they on?
A. Nominal B. Ordinal C. Interval D. Ratio
20. What is the class size of the frequency distribution?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
21. What is the total number of public schools in the municipality of San Fernando City?
A. 24 B. 25 C. 26 D. 28
22. What is the cumulative frequency for the 20 standard numbers of rooms used as a classroom?
A. 24 B. 25 C. 26 D. 28
23. What is the appropriate measure of central tendency for the data?
A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Quartile
24. What is the appropriate measure of dispersion?
A. Standard deviation C. Quartile Deviation
B. Interquartile Range D. Percentile
25. Numerical and pictorial information about variables are called
A. analytical statistics C. descriptive statistics
B. inferential statistics D. Categorical Statistics
26. Which of the statements below were inferential statistics have been used?
I. A survey local employees found that the mean amount of the travel allowance for executives was
$0.25 per mile.
II. A large University reports that the salary of parents of an entering class is $91,600.
III. The American Automobile Association claims that 54% of fatal car/truck accidents are caused by
driver error.
IV. The difference between the highest score and lowest score in statistics examination is 34.
A. I only B. II only C. II &III D. I & IV
27. Statistical inference is
A. The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from a sample.
B. The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from an entire population.
C. Pictorial displays that summarize data.
D. Organization of the collected data.
28. Which is best for categorical variables?
A. bar chart C. box and whisker plot
B. stem and leaf plot D. Frequency Polygon chart
29. Which is best graph for numerical variables?
A. bar chart B. pie chart C. stem and leaf plot D. Pareto chart
30. A survey will be given to 100 students randomly selected from the freshmen class at Lincoln High School.
What is the population?
A. the 100 selected students
B. all freshmen at Lincoln High School
C. all students at Lincoln High School
D. all students and staff at Lincoln High School
31. A mean is known as a statistic if it is computed from the
A. parameter B. population C. sample D. population and sample
Use the stem and leaf plot below showing the running times in a 400 m run for 12 runners with 6|0 representing
60 seconds for questions 32 through 39.

5 8
6 0 1 8
7 0 2 4 6 6
8 1 3 3

32. What is the median?

A. 71 B. 72 C. 73 D. 74
33. How many values would be considered modes?
A. zero B. one C. two D. three
34. What is the mean?
A. 65 B. 71.83 C. 74 D. 75
35. What is the sample standard deviation?
A. 9.001 B. 8.74 C. 64 D. 81.018
36. What is the quartile deviation?
A. 7 B. 8.5 C. 9.1 D. 8.3
37. What is P36?
A. 68.4 B. 68.8 C. 69.36 D. 70
38. Compute Skewness Pearson coefficient of skewness.
A. -0.4016 B. -0.567 C. 0.5443 D. 0.245
39. What is the percentile rank of 76?
A. 56.78 B. 57.65 C. 60.33 D. 66.67
40. What is the most appropriate measures of central tendency for categorical data?
A. Mean B. Median C. Mode D. Percentile

II. Solve the following problems

You have learned to collect and present data, and calculate the central tendency, location,
variability and determine the shapes of the distribution of a data. Perform the task presented
and answer the given questions to enhance your skill in solving problem regarding those
concepts.

Task:
1. Randomly select 20 students if they are more than 20 in one class. Otherwise, use total
enumeration if they are less than 20.
2. Collect data from one of your classes regarding their profile, goal orientation grade point
average during the first quarter, average time spend in watching television, playing
computer games, facebook and blogging, doing research in the internet, and studying per
week during school days.
3. In the profile of your students include sex, grade level, occupation and highest
educational attainment of their parents, and Family monthly income.
4. Measure the goal orientation of your student using the questionnaire below.

Answer the following:

1. What is the profile of your student in terms of:
a. Sex,
b. Grade level,
c. Occupation of parents,
d. Highest Educational Attainment of Parent’s, and
e. Family monthly income?
2. What is the level of goal orientation of your students?
3. What is the average time spend of your students in terms of:
a. Watching television,
b. Playing computer games,
c. Playing games,
d. Facebook, blogging, and they like, and
e. Studying (reading, solving, doing assignment, doing research in the internet, etc.)
4. What is the grade point average of your students?

Criteria.
1. The report should be word processed, single spaced, font 12, times new romans,
and the margins is one on the left, top, right, and bottom.
2. The report should be arranged in the following order:
a. Give a brief background regarding the contents of your report.
b. Put all information in a table for every problem.
c. Summarize the results by using the following tables:
 Problem 1
f %

Sex
Male
Female

d. All explanations should be in paragraph form. Discuss the result by giving a

brief background, giving your own opinion or observation, and citing other
references which support or contrary with your findings.

3. Attach the following:

a. List of references. (Author, year, title, publisher)
b. Raw data tallied in the Microsoft Excel worksheet.
c. Pictures during the collection of data.

The following key will be used to grade their project:

Criteria Points earned Maximum

of the project Points
1. Writing rationale 7
2. Appropriate format 3
3. Accurate data collection 10
4. Appropriate of Species Richness 10
computation Hypothesis Testing 10
5. Explanation of findings, including use of statistics 5
and references
6. Team effort (equal effort amongst group 5
members)
Total Points 50