The purpose of this study is to develop a scale that reveals factors adversely affecting the university preparatory class students’ motivation for the English language and English language classes. The sample included 454 student participants. The researchers used a 6-point Likert-type scale with 50 items to collect the research data. The results of the exploratory factor analysis indicated tha...

Objectives: There is an increasing need for a larger and better trained workforce in medical informatics. The goal of the American Medical Informatics Association 10×10 program is to educate 10,000 clinicians in medical informatics by the year 2010. Methods: We adapted an on-line introductory graduate course toward this goal. It was evaluated using Likert-scale and open-ended questions. Results...

Emotional Reaction (five-point Likert scale ranging from " Not at all " to " A great deal ") Indicate the extent to which you experienced each of the following emotion when the introduction of [system name] was announced: Mean St. dev. Adaptation Behaviors (seven-point Likert scale ranging from " Never " to " Many times a day ") Indicate the extent to which you performed each of the behaviors b...

The objective of the article is the comparative analysis of Likert rating scale based on the following range of response categories, i.e. 5, 7, 9 and 11 in context of the appropriate process of factors extraction in exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The problem addressed in the article is related primarily to the methodological aspects, both in selection of the optimal number of response categ...

This article presents the design and evaluation of novel types of pictorial scales for assessing emotional response based on LEGO Minifigures. We describe the creation of two pictorial scales (LEGO Face Scale and Stylized LEGO Face Scale) through the use of a semi-automatic process. We report on the results of two evaluation studies conducted to assess the validity of the proposed pictorial sca...