Likert scale

The candidate says how strongly they agree, on a scale of numbered points.

For authors

A Likert scale asks for an opinion: how strongly the candidate agrees with a statement, how often they do something, how sure they are. They choose one point on a row of numbered points, with a label at each end.

It is a portable custom interaction, the one the editor can add.

Try it

Answering

The candidate clicks one point. Clicking another changes the answer. The sample has five points, from “Strongly disagree” to “Strongly agree”.

Scoring

The response is the number of the point chosen: 1 for the first, up to the number of points. An opinion has no right answer, so a new Likert scale is not scored. Other questions in the same item score as usual.

To score one anyway, for example a scale whose midpoint is the expected answer, select it, open Scoring, choose Exact match, and pick the point under Correct answer.

In the editor

Question → Likert scale adds a scale to the end of the item. To put one somewhere else, select an element and choose Insert → Likert Scale Interaction. Write the statement in its prompt.

To change the scale, select it and open Properties. Under Data attributes, three settings change it:

The editor draws the scale from these as you change them. A data-levels outside 2 to 20, or that is not a number, gives five points.