At the end of a semester college students evaluate their instructors by assigning them to one of the following categories: Excellent,Good,Average,Below Average,and Poor.The measurement scale is ___________.
A)Ratio scale
B)Ordinal scale
C)Interval scale
D)Nominal scale

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The categories "Excellent," "Good," "Average," "Below Average," and "Poor" represent a ranking order or hierarchy of categories, without any equal distance or meaningful difference between them. This is the defining characteristic of an ordinal scale, which is a type of measurement scale used to rank or order data.

At the End of a Semester College Students Evaluate Their