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This next section demonstrates how you can digitise a psychometric test on
Qualtrics. In the example we are using an adapted version of the STAIC –
“How I Feel Questionnaire,” (Speilberger & Edwards 1973) to measure the
effect different pictures have on anxiety levels.
1. To begin, make a new block and name it “How I feel questionnaire”.
2. Create a new item, and change the item style to Matrix Table.
3. Where it says “Click to write the question text,” type the questionnaire
instructions:
This questionnaire is interested in how you are feeling right now. Please select
the option which best describes how you feel. There are no right or wrong
answers. Don't spend too much time on any one statement. Remember, select
the option which best describes how you feel right now, at this very moment.
4. We now want to create our scale points. To edit the template, click
anywhere that states “click to write” and you can change that section.
Along the top of the table, edit the scale points to:
Scoring
Qualtrics can help with scoring responses in some ways, but not
others. Generally, when you make a psychometric test, you convert
responses such as Agree (1), Neither Agree nor Disagree (2), and
Disagree (3), into numbers for analysis purposes.
Why do we assign each response with a number?
When analysing the overall score of a psychometric test, you normally either
total up the individual responses, or calculate an average score to allow for
comparisons between people. In the current example, we are going to add up
the scores across all the questions in the STAIC “How I Feel Questionnaire”.
1. You can edit how your matrix table is coded by browsing the
advanced question options. To do this, click the “Cog” looking item
on the left hand side of your Matrix table.
You will still get the individual responses for the matrix table, however, it will
be in the format discussed above, matching those in the “Recode Values”
window.
So what is the advantage of using this “Advanced options – Scoring” method.
First of all, when analysing psychometric tests, you often make a sum of the
responses. You can then use this number to perform a correlation with
another measure, or alternatively, you can divide it by the number of
questions in your scale to make an average. So essentially Qualtrics can
save you a job of adding up the responses yourself. Secondly, as you can
code each statement individually, the overall sum can take into account
reverse questions. Therefore this method can accurately calculate a test
score no matter how complex the scoring needs to be.
5. Scroll down to our “How I feel questionnaire”. Then you can start
clicking on the “-“ to add scores. To change a score from 1, simply
highlight and retype what number you would like instead.
8. These inputted scores will automatically save for your scoring category
STAIC. You can see how numbers assigned to categories are
independent to one another by flicking between the categories “Score”
and “STAIC”.
The “Score” category should be blank, and the “STAIC” category should have
your inputted responses.
9. To test if you’re scoring has worked, click “Scoring Options” then click
the drop down menu next to “Show Scoring Summary for Category”
and select STAIC.
If everything works fine then hurrah! You can decide to leave this page in the
survey if you want to show feedback to your participants. Alternatively, you
can remove this by going back into “Scoring Options” and un-ticking:
Note: When downloading your results the score will appear in its own
column: Essentially search for whatever you named your category and look
for sum. i.e. CATEGORYNAME-sum.