I'm currently pursuing my Master's degree, focusing on Learning Transfer. My research instrument will be a Likert scale questionnaire.
My questions are:
1) How many questions or statements should I include for it to be on par and for the information to be reliable, valid, and generalizable? Should it be 20, 50, or 100?
2) Are there any samples of questionnaires on Learning Transfer available that I can use as guides?
Your support is appreciated.
From South Africa, Pretoria
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My questions are:
1) How many questions or statements should I include for it to be on par and for the information to be reliable, valid, and generalizable? Should it be 20, 50, or 100?
2) Are there any samples of questionnaires on Learning Transfer available that I can use as guides?
Your support is appreciated.
From South Africa, Pretoria
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I think I oversimplified my comments. I'm busy with my MBA and currently developing a Likert scale questionnaire as the instrument to collect data. The main emphasis of my research focuses on "Barriers to Learning Transfer." My question, therefore, relates to the length of the questionnaire. I'm using 6 scales instead of 5, basically to avoid the tendency of selecting the midpoint e.g., 1, 2, (3), 4, 5. Will a questionnaire be sufficient with 20 or 30 well-constructed questions or statements?
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I guessed you would be a student. You have not answered all my questions. Did you read and digest the material in the link I posted?
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Yes Im a student and far from being an xpert. I’m currently still reading it and need to do it 1 more time to fully grasp all.
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Basically, the aim is to investigate the perceptions trainees have regarding supervisor support before, during, and after training, how this support contributes to the achievement of the transfer of learning, and also the indirect contribution of this supervisor support on other variables, e.g., motivation to learn, etc. Broad and Newstrom identified this support as one of the facilitators to the transfer process.
Other than the perception of trainees, what constitutes supervisor support, etc.?
The objective can thus be: Investigating the variables that constitute theories of learning transfer and synthesizing them into a typical common understanding that depicts the most effective methodology for the transfer of learning within organizations.
So! From a lay perspective, I need to construct a Likert scale with 6 scales from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree" to try and get to the bottom of these perceptions and realities regarding supervisor support for training. Hence, I wanted to know in terms of the number of questions/statements that will be more or less exhaustive of the topic and at the same time not be too long for the respondent to lose interest. Samples on the topic, if any, will be dearly appreciated.
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Other than the perception of trainees, what constitutes supervisor support, etc.?
The objective can thus be: Investigating the variables that constitute theories of learning transfer and synthesizing them into a typical common understanding that depicts the most effective methodology for the transfer of learning within organizations.
So! From a lay perspective, I need to construct a Likert scale with 6 scales from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree" to try and get to the bottom of these perceptions and realities regarding supervisor support for training. Hence, I wanted to know in terms of the number of questions/statements that will be more or less exhaustive of the topic and at the same time not be too long for the respondent to lose interest. Samples on the topic, if any, will be dearly appreciated.
From South Africa, Pretoria
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Questionnaire on learning n development.doc