There are various ways of answering this question.
One is to consider whether questionnaire responses
revealed a tendency to favour any one of the four
orientations to learner autonomy discussed earlier.
Of course, the strength of any conclusions here
depends on the extent to which the Likert-scale items
representing each orientation functioned effectively
as a scale. Using Cronbach’s alpha, as described
earlier, the results for the four scales were as follows:
technical (0.57), psychological (0.63), social (0.51)
and political (0.53)