A Scale to Measure the Impact of the ATE （规模来衡量的影响吃）.pdf

Title Page: Developing and Analyzing a Scale to Measure the Impact of the Advanced Technological Education Program January 2013 Wayne W. Welch University of Minnesota Author Notes Wayne W. Welch, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota (ret.) Professor Welch is also a consultant for Rainbow Research, Inc., Minneapolis, MN This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1132099. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Correspondence concerning this report should be addressed to Wayne Welch, 621 W Lake St # 300, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Contact: wwelch@ 2 Abstract Using statements generated by team leaders and other stakeholders, I show they can be used on a Likert-type survey to create a reliable and valid scale to measure the impact of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program (ATE). The process, called Peer-Generated Likert Scaling, uses these statements to solicit opinions from other ATE grantees. They are asked to respond with the usual options of strongly agree to strongly disagree. However, there was an option to mark, Not Applicable (NA), if the statement did not apply to their grant. This was because the grants vary in size and duration. It was not clear from a literature review how to score NA option on these kinds of survey. I used two ways to calculate a scale score; a sum of the responses to the items called