Though ubiquitous, Likert scaling's traditional mode of analysis is often unable to uncover all of the valid information in a data set. Here, the authors discuss a solution to this problem based on methodology developed by quantum physicists: the state multipole method. The authors demonstrate the relative ease and value of this method by…

The study found that influential tactics employed by instructors during students' course evaluation (praise, and praise combined with food) had a significant effect on the ratings of the Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire, raising them, although the experimental and control groups agreed on relative profiles of instructors' strong and weak…