{"id":2790,"date":"2016-06-24T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2016-06-24T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T21:27:22","slug":"week-6-evaluate-instrument-for-education-evaluation-tool-designdevelopment-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/education-evaluation\/week-6-evaluate-instrument-for-education-evaluation-tool-designdevelopment-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6: Evaluate Instrument for Education – Evaluation Tool Design\/Development Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Since this week was the last week that my mentors and I had allotted officially for the design and development phase of our evaluation instrument, I focused my work on finishing the current iteration of the evaluation questionnaire\/survey, which I had begun developing over the last few week.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In particular, the key area that I was finalizing for the evaluation questionnaire\/survey was the Likert scale format that would be used for the questionnaire\/survey. Based on the literature reviews that I performed during Weeks 4 and 5 and as a result of my discussions with my mentors, we decided that we would recommend using a 6-point scale whenever Likert scale was suggested as the question type in our questionnaire\/survey. For example, when asking the degree that\u00a0the respondent would agree to a specific evaluation question, the suggested scale would have the following scale values:\u00a0Strongly Disagree (1), Disagree (2), Partially Disagree (3), Partially Agree (4), Agree (5), Strongly Agree (6). The same format could be adapted for other adjectives such as Extremely Unlikely (1), Unlikely (2), Partially Unlikely (3), Partially Likely (4), Likely (5), Extremely Likely (6). When considering the trade-offs between using an odd or an even point format (an odd scale would have an exact middle point that would often take a neutral position versus an even scale would have the same number of positive and negative response options) and the number of points on the scale (typical range is from 2-point to 10-point), the 6-point scale format would allow the balance between giving the respondents the\u00a0opportunity to consider and express different levels of attitude, and at the same time, allowing the scale to be not\u00a0too complex and\u00a0time-consuming. With this adjustment completed, I will be discussing with my mentors during next week regarding how to test out the current revision of the evaluation questionnaire\/survey.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In addition to finalizing\u00a0the evaluation tool, I also worked on creating and finishing two matrices for the following comparisons:<\/div>\n
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  1. The pros and cons of the different survey variations that were collected during the previous week’s literature review.<\/li>\n
  2. Survey\/questionnaire tools based on the areas to consider when choosing a survey\/questionnaire tool. \u00a0The areas to consider were also collected during the previous week’s literature review.\n