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Simsek, Ahmet Salih – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
Likert-type item is the most popular response format for collecting data in social, educational, and psychological studies through scales or questionnaires. However, there is no consensus on whether parametric or non-parametric tests should be preferred when analyzing Likert-type data. This study examined the statistical power of parametric and…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Likert Scales, Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Analysis
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Chiu, Ming Ming; Fujita, Nobuko – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
Online forums (synchronous and asynchronous) offer exciting data opportunities to analyze how people influence one another through their interactions. However, researchers must address several analytic difficulties involving the data (missing values, nested structure [messages within topics], non-sequential messages), outcome variables (discrete…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis