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4 point and 5 point Likert scales in a new questionnaire
I'm looking to confirm whether having a 4 point Likert Scale for some constructs, and a 5 point Likert scale for other constructs will be suitable when developing a questionnaire?
I have 7 constructs ...
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Which correlation analysis is appropriate for binary and ordinal variables?
Violin players were asked to rate 5 violins from least to most rich on a [0 1], 0.05-increment scale, ...
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Likert scale and yes/no calculation of one score
My survey is based on observations and interviews. The observation questions are yes/no type questions and interview questions are 4 points.
1 = never, 2 = sometimes, 3 = usually, and 4 = ...
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How to validate a survey when using Likert scale?
I have developed a very simple survey to measure the attitudes of students toward science fairs. It makes use of the Likert Scale and Open Ended Questions. Do you have a recommendation for the type ...
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How to equate questionnaires with different response scales
I'm trying to help out a not-for-profit organization and made an error that I'm trying to fix. They've been doing a non scientific survey of their Board of Directors for a number of years regarding ...
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How to deal with the cases when participants gave rating of 2.5 or 4.5 on a 1-5 scale?
Because this was done during the interview, the participants just spoke out their rating rather than marked it done on the paper: they sometimes say "I think it is between 2 and 3" or "I give it 4 or ...
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Designing and validating a Likert-type scale with odd or even response categories
As part of an advisory team in my educational institution for undergraduate nurses, I (among others) have been assigned to design a questionnaire that will assess students' and academic staff's ...
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Is 0 a valid value in a Likert scale?
I have carried out my pilot study on language learning motivation using a 6 point Likert scale but from 0 (strongly disagree) to 5 (very much agree). I noticed a colleague in his survey used 1 to 6. ...
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Item analysis for a likert-type questionnaire - item discrimination, point-biserial, factor analysis, cronbach's alpha, other diagnostics?
I'm working on a questionnaire that is intended to measure two constructs. There are presently 26 items in the questionnaire -- eleven for construct 1 and 15 for construct 2 -- and each item has five ...
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How to carry out a Likert scale analysis?
Context:
My research aims to assess whether parents who have been involved in a relationship with a social worker are at higher risk of child abuse/neglect.
I am trying to establish whether there ...
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Can one validly reduce the numbers of items in a published Likert-scale?
[edits made in response to feedback- thanks :-) ]
Doh! More edits! Sorry!
Hello-
I am doing some rather rough and ready data collection with a survey sent out to healthcare staff using a published ...
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Data transformation for Principal Components Analysis from different Likert scales
I have data from a survey comprised of several measures that used different Likert-type scaling (4-, 5-, and 6-point scales). I would like to run a principal components analysis using the data from ...
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Is it appropriate to treat n-point Likert scale data as n trials from a binomial process?
I've never liked how people typically analyze data from Likert scales as if error were continuous & Gaussian when there are reasonable expectations that these assumptions are violated at least at ...
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Factor analysis of questionnaires composed of Likert items
I used to analyse items from a psychometric point of view. But now I am trying to analyse other types of questions on motivation and other topics. These questions are all on Likert scales. My initial ...
