Good day! Our group conducted a classroom research about Social Goals Role on Student Mindset. For this study, we asked 42 college students to answer 2 sets of questionnaire. The first survey consists of 17 items (YES/NO) while the second set consists of 3 items with 6-point Likert scale.
Please help me on what correlation analysis to use.
To get to the answer to your question you need to think about how you can turn a set of X numbers (from each test) into a single number that represents the score on the test (and the underlying construct) as a whole. How do your instructors turn your answers from 17 items on a TRUE/FALSE test into a single number for your grade? Another approach with which you are probably familiar is to find a way to turn those several numbers into a single number that best represents the central tendency of each test.
You first need to decide what question(s) you are trying to answer.
You could analyze your data with anything from running basic summary statistics to doing an unsupervised (or supervised) random forest, the first may not answer the questions of interest (or it may) and the second may be overkill (and still may not answer any questions of interest).
How to combine survey answers into a single score (or even if you should do this) depends on what question you want to answer. Whether to do a single analysis of combined data or do a few different analyses on seperate parts of the data depend on the question(s) of interest.
If you give more information on the actual question(s) of interest and how the data relates to the question(s) then we may be able to give better pointers. Actually, often the process of figuring out a good research question will clarify what techniques to use.
