Rating Scale

A Rating Scale is a score that quantifies or categorizes of an attribute.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a psychometric scale, to being a perceived exertion scale, to being a semantic differential scale.
  • It can range from being a numeric rating scale, to being a verbal rating scale, to being a visual analogue scale.
  • It can range from being a graphic rating scale to being a descriptive graphic rating Scale.
• Example(s):
  • a Likert Scale,
  • a Borg Scale,
  • a Bogardus Social Distance Scale,
  • a Discan scale,
  • a Guttman Scale,
  • a Mokken Scale,
  • a Phrase Completion Scale,
  • a Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale,
  • a Thurstone Scale.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Voting System,
  • an Ipsative Measure.
• See: Classical Test Theory, Quantitative Property, Qualitative Data, Social Sciences, Psychology, Scale of One to Ten, Rasch Model, Tau-equivalent Reliability.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rating_scale Retrieved:2021-7-29.
  • A rating scale is a set of categories designed to elicit information about a quantitative or a qualitative attribute. In the social sciences, particularly psychology, common examples are the Likert response scale and 1-10 rating scales in which a person selects the number which is considered to reflect the perceived quality of a product.

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