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Allen, Melissa A. – 1994
Special problems confront the researcher measuring the attitudes of young children who cannot readily make cognitive judgments associated with conventional psychometric scales, such as Likert scales. One measurement strategy, called the method of paired comparisons, can overcome these difficulties. The method is explained in this paper. A small…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Child Behavior, Children, Communication Problems