Likert items and scales are often used in human subject studies to measure subjective responses of subjects to the treatment levels. In the field of human-robot interaction (HRI), with few widely accepted quantitative metrics, researchers often rely on Likert items and scales to evaluate their systems. However, there is a debate on what is the best statistical method to evaluate the differences...

introduction: quality in higher education requires assessment and judgment of goals and strategies, executive policies, operational processes, products and outcomes. the context, input, process, and product (cipp) model is a comprehensive perspective to determine, obtain and prepare. it always tries to provide information in order to make the best decisions related to context, input, process an...

this study was carried out to evaluate the ekiti state social security scheme (essss) in nigeria. specifically, the study estimated the food security status of the beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of the scheme, assessed the effect of the social security scheme on households’ food security status, and identified the constraints to the implementation of the scheme in the state. a three stage ...

The reliability of the fuzzy scale for assessing the responses of a person in an opinion questionnaire (which is usually treated as a Likert-type questionnaire) is analyzed. Thus, a comparison between a classical Likert scale-based questionnaire and its fuzzy rating scale-based version in terms of their reliability is established. For this purpose, some questions of the Grasha-Riechmann student...

BACKGROUND Kenya has bold plans for scaling up priority interventions nationwide, but faces major human resource challenges, with a lack of skilled workers especially in the most disadvantaged rural areas. METHODS We investigated reasons for poor recruitment and retention in rural areas and potential policy interventions through quantitative and qualitative data collection with nursing traine...