Some of the confusion is because the original use of the term  refers to a
summative scale made up items with that response scale.  Some people use the term
Likert scale to refer to a single item with that kind of reponse scale.

Eric Bohlman wrote:

> Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thank you Melanie. Good suggestions-- and I might not have thought about the
> > language issue. Can you tell me what is meant by a "likert-scale item"?
>
> 1) People are frequently confused over the meaning of "Likert scale"
>  ( ) Strongly disagree
>  ( ) Disagree
>  ( ) Neutral
>  ( ) Agree
>  ( ) Strongly agree
>
> :)

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