Development of an attitude scale using a mixture of Likert and Thurston scaling techniques

Abstract

The current study aimed at development of an attitude scale using a mixture of Likert and Thurston scaling techniques. To create a kind of integration between the two methods and to get rid of the two problems of non-response on all items of the scale (Thurston) and the problem of the unified relative weight of all items (Likert). Where the study sample consisted of (50) arbitrators and (150) students from the ninth and tenth grades in Ajloun Governorate. They were chosen randomly with a unit of choice based on one grade. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive-analytical and correlational approach was used, and the study tools were developed according to each of the traditional Likert methods. In addition, Thurston's method and from Likert's hybrid method, with (24) items. The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the values of the reliability coefficients and the terminal validity for each of the traditional Likert and Likert hybrid methods. The regression weights of the items depend on the latent factors according to the grading method and the correlation coefficients between the latent factors and the residuals.

Keywords: Direction Scale, Likert, Thurston, Likert Hybrid.