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Affective Assessment Tools

The document discusses several tools used to assess the affective domain: self-report, rating scales like Likert scales, semantic differential scales, Thurstone scales, and Stapel scales. It provides examples and explanations of each tool, how they are used to measure attitudes, feelings, and perceptions.

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Affective Assessment Tools

The document discusses several tools used to assess the affective domain: self-report, rating scales like Likert scales, semantic differential scales, Thurstone scales, and Stapel scales. It provides examples and explanations of each tool, how they are used to measure attitudes, feelings, and perceptions.

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STANDARD

ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN
THE AFFECTIVE
DOMAIN
DR. ELA NARVASA-REGONDOLA
Professor IV
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Self-Report
Rating Scales
Semantic Differential Scales
Thurstone Scales
Likert Scales
Stapel Scales
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Self-Report
This is the most common measurement
tool in the affective domain. It essentially
requires an individual to provide an
account of his/her attitude or feelings
toward a concept or idea or people. It is
sometimes called “written reflections”.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Rating Scales
This is a set of categories designed to
elicit information about a quantitative
attribute in social science. Common
examples are the Likert scale and 1-10
rating scales.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Semantic Differential Scales (SD)


This scale tries to assess an individual’s
reaction to specific words, ideas or
concepts in terms of ratings on bipolar
scales defined with contrasting adjectives
at each end.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Semantic Differential Scales (SD)


Example:

Good ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Bad


3 2 1 0 1 2 3
Boring ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Interesting
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Semantic Differential Scales (SD)


Usually, the position marked 0 is labeled
“neutral”, the 1 positions are labeled
“slightly,” the 2 positions “quite,” and the 3
positions extremely”. Hence, 3 close to
good means extremely good and a 3 close
to bad means, extremely bad.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Thurstone Scales
Thurstone is considered the father of attitude
measurement. has a number of “agree” or
“disagree” statements. It is a unidimensional
scale to measure attitudes towards people.
Developing the scale is time consuming and
relatively complex compared to other scales (like
the Likert scale);
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Thurstone Scales
Although there are technically three scales,
when people refer to the “Thurstone Scale”
they’re usually talking about the method of
equal-appearing intervals. It’s called “Equal
appearing intervals” because when you
choose the items for your test (see Step 6
below), you’re picking items equally spaced
apart. The other two variations are:
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Thurstone Scales
The method of successive intervals: this method is more
challenging to implement than equal-appearing intervals.
The method of paired comparisons: requires twice the
judgments than the equal-appearing intervals method
and can quickly become very consuming.
The three methods differ in their construction, but still
result in the same Agree/Disagree quiz given to
respondents.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Likert Scales
A Likert scale measures agreement or
disagreement to a particular statement. The scale
ranges from “strongly agree” to “disagree” with
neutral in the center. You can easily quantify the
results. It’s usual for the highest agreement to be
rated a 5, neutral as 3 and the lowest agreement
or no agreement.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Likert Scales
This makes it easy to compare results. An
example of a Likert scale question would be:
My job is drudgery.
Strongly disagree / Disagree / Neutral / Agree /
Strongly Agree
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Stapel Scales
Stapel Scale is a unipolar (one adjective) rating
scale designed to measure the respondent’s
attitude towards the object or event. The scale is
comprised of 10 categories ranging from –5 to +5
without any neutral point (zero).
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Stapel Scales
The stapel scale got its name after its
developer Jan Stapel. The scale is usually
constructed vertically with a single adjective in the
middle of the range of values (-5 to +5). The
respondent is asked to select the appropriate
numerical response category that best describes
the extent to which the adjective related to the
object is accurate or inaccurate.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Stapel Scales
The higher the positive score selected by the
respondent, the more accurate the adjective
describes the object and vice versa.
For example, the respondent is asked to rank
the quality of food, and crew member service of
an airline on a scale ranging from -5 to +5:
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Stapel Scales
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Stapel Scales
From the above example, the airline is
evaluated as having a high food quality but
somewhat a poor cabin crew service.
The stapel scale is like a semantic differential
scale with little modifications. It is often used in the
situations when two bi-polar adjectives are difficult
to find out. The data obtained are the interval and
are analyzed in the same manner as the semantic
differential data.
Some Assessment Tools in Affective
Domain

Stapel Scales
One of the advantages of the stapel scale is
that it does not require the pre-testing of
adjectives to ensure their true bipolarity. Also, it
can be easily administered over the telephone.
But, however, some researcher finds the stapel
scale to be quite complex and confusing.

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