SOC 2805 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Likert Scale, Level Of Measurement
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Measurement of attitudes and quantitative and qualitative research the importance of attitudinal skills lives and their ability to help us find out how people feel towards the situations and issues. And quantitative research the three skills: which of been developed to measure attitudes each of the skills-based fun different assumptions and follows different procedures and it"s construction. Considerations in constructing a likert scale first decide whether the edited it is measured is to be classified into 12 or three directional categories next consider whether you want to use categories or numerical scale. Calculating attitudinal scores the attitudinal score only places respondents in a position relative to one another. The chemo active or gutman scale is one of the most difficult skill to construct there for. Israel used does not have much relevance for beginners and research and so it"s not discussed in the book.
