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Likert scale

Likert scale noun: a symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement.

Noun

Likert scale (plural Likert scales)

  1. A symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement.
    • In a quantitative version of such a task, participants might be asked to rate the sentences on a scale from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 7 (a “Likert” scale, pronounced “Lick-ert”), or on a binary scale (good vs. bad), or even on an unbounded scale.[2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 21

Forms of Likert scale

pluralLikert scales

Origin of Likert scale

Named after its inventor, psychologist Rensis Likert.

Questions about Likert scale

What does Likert scale mean?
Likert scale means a symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement.
What part of speech is Likert scale?
Likert scale is a noun.
What is the plural of Likert scale?
The plural of Likert scale is Likert scales.

Words near Likert scale in the dictionary

  1. Likenses
  2. liker
  3. likerousness
  4. likers
  5. Likert
  6. Likert scale
  7. Likert scales
  8. likes
  9. likes it or lumps it
  10. likes the sound of one's own voice
  11. likesome

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