Analysing two ordinal variables
Part 4: Reporting
If we combine all the reporting bits from the example, the full report for this variable, might have looked something like:
To see if the questions about the teacher actually relate to each other the results of the question on the motivation by the teacher and if s/he was able to link the theory to practical situations are shown in Figure 1.
As can be seen Figure 1 it appears that most students answered both questions similar. The Goodman-Kruskal gamma confirmed that there was a significant high positive association between how motivational the teacher was, and how s/he was able to link the theory to practice, γ =.88, p < .001. Students seem to have answered these two questions similarly, as could be expected since both are about the teacher. To see if perhaps being able to link theory to practical situations helps a teacher to motivate students it was further discussed during a focus session. In this focus sessions students explained that…… |
Note the final paragraph explains the some-what technical results into more understandable English, something many readers would often appreciate.
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