Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution

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Autor(a) principal: Calapez, T.
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Ramos, M., Botelho, M. C.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12865
Resumo: The aim of this study is to examine whether and how the use of verbal descriptors at all categories or just at the extremes of 5-point Likert-type items influences the results. Each participant was requested to mark his/her level of agreement with 18 items concerning beliefs on mathematics, using one of the following forms: with verbal descriptors at all categories or just at the extremes. Respondents were found to use more intensively the extreme categories when only these were verbally described. However, these differences were not significant when using summated scales, except in case of severe skewness.
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spelling Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distributionAttitude measurementLikert itemsLikert scalesVerbal descriptorsThe aim of this study is to examine whether and how the use of verbal descriptors at all categories or just at the extremes of 5-point Likert-type items influences the results. Each participant was requested to mark his/her level of agreement with 18 items concerning beliefs on mathematics, using one of the following forms: with verbal descriptors at all categories or just at the extremes. Respondents were found to use more intensively the extreme categories when only these were verbally described. However, these differences were not significant when using summated scales, except in case of severe skewness.Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia2017-04-10T13:14:32Z2016-01-01T00:00:00Z20162019-04-17T12:00:42Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/12865eng1647-333710.30553/sociologiaonline.2016.12.5Calapez, T.Ramos, M.Botelho, M. C.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-07-07T03:18:03Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/12865Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-07-07T03:18:03Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
title Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
spellingShingle Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
Calapez, T.
Attitude measurement
Likert items
Likert scales
Verbal descriptors
title_short Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
title_full Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
title_fullStr Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
title_full_unstemmed Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
title_sort Describe all or just a few? The influence of verbal descriptors on Likert-type variables on items’ and scales’ distribution
author Calapez, T.
author_facet Calapez, T.
Ramos, M.
Botelho, M. C.
author_role author
author2 Ramos, M.
Botelho, M. C.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Calapez, T.
Ramos, M.
Botelho, M. C.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Attitude measurement
Likert items
Likert scales
Verbal descriptors
topic Attitude measurement
Likert items
Likert scales
Verbal descriptors
description The aim of this study is to examine whether and how the use of verbal descriptors at all categories or just at the extremes of 5-point Likert-type items influences the results. Each participant was requested to mark his/her level of agreement with 18 items concerning beliefs on mathematics, using one of the following forms: with verbal descriptors at all categories or just at the extremes. Respondents were found to use more intensively the extreme categories when only these were verbally described. However, these differences were not significant when using summated scales, except in case of severe skewness.
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