English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education
Although I am not a statistician, through some quirk of Google's search algorithm, it appears that I have become promoted to a go-to internet expert on Likert scales. This is sometimes awkward, especially when a less-than-perfect blog post is cited in a peer-reviewed publication, but I can live with that. On the other hand, I tend to …
If you want to convert multiple Likert item scores in a combined scale, here's one way to do it using SPSS.
I have found it moderately bemusing that my post on Likert scales has received so much attention, considering that I had only intended to mention statistics in passing, in order to make what I perceived to be a more broadly relevant remark. Because my authorial intention was not to educate readers in statistics, the views I expressed in that …
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Every now and then I tend to get questions about statistics from readers of this blog — this is due to a somewhat ill-deserved reputation Google seems to have bestowed on me as an 'expert' in Likert scale measurement. Many of the answers you need can be found in this post, and this set of …
Many questionnaires use Likert items & scales to elicit information about language teaching and learning. In this post, I discuss how to use these instruments effectively, by looking into the difference between items and scales, and explaining how to analyse the data that they produce.
