Likert scale

Posted by Della Mora, Marcelo on Jul 13, 2006; 7:06pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Likert-scale-tp1069652p1069653.html

Hi Dominic

Try reliability analysis that tests internal consistency
and relationship of each items to total score: correlation item-total, co-variance...

hope this helps you


Marcelo Della Mora



-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of
Dominic Fernandes
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:45 AM
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Subject: Likert scale


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.