Question 6
The sixth question concerns itself with perceptions of the quality of the measures that
are being done in terms of a number of attributes of the measures. We constructed
12 Likert-like questions anchored by “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree” with the
center point being labeled neither/nor. The attributes for quality came from a variety of
sources including the Delphi study, the case studies and the literature. Table V
provides the results of that analysis, providing the frequency of responses, as well as
the mean and standard deviation for each question.
The sample clearly has mixed perceptions on the quality of the data. In no case is the
overall mean under 2.0, or moderately agree, but in three cases it is over 3.0 which means
the mean perceptions are slightly negative as all questions were worded so that a lower
number indicates higher quality perceptions. The actual means range from 2.31 to 3.19
and the standard deviations are between 1.0 and 1.16 and are thus very consistent