About Surveys

Dichotomous Format - A test or survey item that offers two alternatives for each item (e.g. True/False).

Polytomous (Polychotomous) Format - A test or survey item with three or more alternative responses for each item (i.e. Multiple choice).

Likert Format - Item that would indicate the degree of agreement with a particular attitudinal question or statement (e.g. strongly disagree, disagree, neither disagree nor agree, agree, strongly agree).

Category Format - A rating scale format that uses a range of numbers or points (i.e. 1-10).

Checklists - A list of adjectives that delineate the characteristics of the person or topic.

This entry was posted by joshc on Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 2:40 pm and is filed under Question Types.