Likert scale

Posted by Dominic Fernandes on Jul 13, 2006; 9:44am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Likert-scale-tp1069652.html

Hi All,

I have a question. How do we analyze a Likert scale (consisting of 7 responses) course evaluation questionnaire given to 25 teachers who attended an in-service course? Shall we treat the responses as scale variables and use parametric tests or shall we treat the responses as ordinal variables and use the nonparametric test.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Dominic.