Questionnaire with a Likert scale
Sample items
- “Nice to spend the rest of your career in the organization”
- “Willing to help colleagues who have work problems”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Another might be “Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” Likert’s scaling technique would demonstrate the difference in intensity between these items as well as pegging the inten- sity of the other 18 statements. Let’s suppose we ask a sample of people to agree or disagree with…”
— The Practice of Social Researchmatch 63%
“Likert ScaleOne of the most common item formats is a Likert scale. When a Likert scale is used, the item is presented as a declarative sentence, followed by response options that indicate varying degrees of agreement with or endorsement of the statement. (In fact, the preceding…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 63%
“A single score might be assigned to each respondent (the strength of the hardest item accepted), and that score would adequately represent the responses to several questionnaire items. And as is true of the Bogardus scale, a respondent who scored 6 might be regarded as more…”
— The Practice of Social Researchmatch 63%
Resources: The Practice of Social Research · Scale Development