I'm going to go over how to create a basic Likert scale.
Now like it was the person that designed this kind of scale and what is typical of this scale
is a set of numbers ranging from maybe one to five or one to seven usually not bigger than
that because it kind of gets out of control and each of these numbers are labeled and there's
sort of gradual changes in the labels from 1 to set so we're talking about agreement in this
particular Lakeridge scale so strongly disagree disagree slightly disagree a neutral slightly
agree agree or strongly agree and I'm agreeing with each of these statements for example the
learning object was well organized if I select a 3 in this scale it means I slightly disagree
like that okay and so that's the basics of this scale a couple of things you should note I used
a range of 1 to 7 I like that range I find a rate as particularly the adults or secondary
school students I think can handle that range and allows them some flexibility in terms of their
answers if it's younger students I do a range from 1 to 5 and some people actually just use
they force people either to agree or disagree by choosing an even number I don't agree with that
practice I think neutral is a valid response and I like to get leave that option open to the person
who's filling in the scale right so that's sort of the top part of the scale now the side part
of the scale is the items the criteria that you might for example be using to assess a web-based
learning tool in this case I've written the learning object was well organized and then
the next item is the learning object was easy to use now it's important that you have one and only
one focus on each item so I you don't want to put the learning object was well organized and easy to
use because we're not sure what the respondent is agreeing with are they saying it's well-organized
or that it's easy to use or that it's both and then they wouldn't know how to answer
was one and not the other so that's that's kind of important and then you have the number of items
basically I suggest that you know what I've been any more than a page and the reason you don't want
to pay more than a page of vitamins is respondent fatigue the person filling in the survey can get
a little bit tired and then their answers main maybe less valid and then the other point is you
may have ten items but those items might group into say two different categories so you might
have how engaging a learning or interesting learning object is versus how ease of use or
something like that so you may want to have a few items two or three items focusing on each category
that you're thinking of you may want to do that or you just may want to have a number of items
it's up to you and then the last thing I like to do is have a couple of open-ended questions just
checking some things they're always a good idea so I might say so overall what were your impressions
of this learning object just in case I didn't cover what they thought about the learning object
maybe there was something else that was bothering about the learning object or I might say what did
you like about this web-based learning tool what did you not like about it so I like to leave
an an open-ended question you get a lot of rich information and it helps establish also validity
of these things because if they mentioned things here that they and say they really like they sell
it's really well organized and they raid it iseven then those things are supporting each other and so
that's that's kind of a good thing as well so that's the basics of creating a Likert scale