Sliders for the smart: Type of rating scale on the web interacts with educational level

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-231

  Funke, Frederik ^a   Reips, Ulf Dietrich ^b   Thomas, Randall K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^c ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

horizontal orientation; interaction of scale type with education; online questionnaire; radio button scales; slider scales; vertical orientation; web experiment; web survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954476988     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439310376896     Document Type: Article

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