Αχιλλέας Κωστούλας * Ιστοσελίδα και Ιστολόγιο
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 …
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 …
