English Language Teaching Research and Teacher Education
This post is a brief overview of Critical Skills for Life and Work (CSLW), one of the last projects in which I was involved at the University of Graz. Although the project has been running since September 2017, I have avoided discussing it in this space, in order to give us time to work out various …
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.
This post will teach you three things: how to tell dependent and independent variables apart; how to calculate correlations; and how not to piss me off.
I hope I do not sound too immodest when I claim that I have some experience in school-based research. My PhD research was embedded in a language school, I've supervised BA and M-level research projects which involved working with schools, students and their parents, and I was for some time responsible for school-based research in a primary …
