Is There an Optimal Number of Alternatives for Likert Scale Items? Study I: Reliability and Validity
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 31 (3) , 657-674
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447103100307
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