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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 …
Elsewhere in this blog, I have written that a Likert scale might consist of several overlapping items. For instance, if I want to measure subjects' attitudes towards sweets, I might ask them to record how they feel about the following statements: Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree 1. I like chocolate. 2. I like cookies …
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Every week, I receive between two and five emails asking about research questions, most of which I do not answer because I don't have time, and because I have already answered them (or similar questions) repeatedly in this blog. When I do reply, it is usually because an email provides the affordance for a teaching point, and the …
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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 …
So far in this series of posts on doing multilingual research, I have probed the intricacies of multilingual research settings, presented some dilemmas about obtaining informed consent, and talked about language choice and data generation. This post moves the discussion forward to the most visible outcome of a multilingual research project: How might one present multilingual data on a …
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