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Likert Scale: Explored and Explained

Ankur Joshi, Saket Kale, Satish Chandel, D. K. Pal

Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · pp. 396–403 · Published 20 Feb 2015

10.9734/BJAST/2015/14975

Abstract

Likert scale is applied as one of the most fundamental and frequently used psychometric tools in educational and social sciences research. Simultaneously, it is also subjected to a lot of debates and controversies in regards with the analysis and inclusion of points on the scale. With this context, through reviewing the available literature and then clubbing the received information with coherent scientific thinking, this paper attempts to gradually build a construct around Likert scale. This analytical review begins with the necessity of psychometric tools like Likert scale andits variants and focuses on some convoluted issues like validity, reliability and analysis of the scale.

Psychometrics Likert scale points on scale analysis education

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