The document provides a comprehensive overview of rating scales and checklists used for performance evaluation. It discusses various types of rating scales, their characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations, as well as the purposes and features of checklists. The conclusion emphasizes the utility of these tools in assessing skills and behaviors, particularly in educational settings.

1. RATING SCALE AND
CHECKLIST
Avantika Gupta
MSc Nursing 1st
year

2. RATING SCALE
Rating is the term used to express the opinion judgement
regarding some performance of a person , object , situation or
character.
DEFINITION :- Ration Scale refers to a scale with a set of
opinion ,which describes varying degree of the dimensions
of an attitude being observed.

3.  A Rating scale is a tool in which one person simply check
another person level of performance.
 Rating scale actually measures How much or How well
something happened, where generally quantitative and
qualitative terms are used to judge the performance.
 It could be a 3-point,5-point,or 7-point rating scale.

4. TYPES OF RATING SCALE
 GRAPHIC RATING SCALE
 DESCRIPTIVE RATING SCALE
 NUMERICAL SCALE
 COMPARATIVE RATING SCALE
 CUMULATIVE OR GUTTMANN RATING
POINTS
 FORCED CHOICE RATING SCALE

5. GRAPHIC RATING SCALE
 In this scale, the performance is printed horizontally at
various points from lowest to highest . It includes the
numerical point on the scales.
 EXAMPLE :- A supervisor of a nurse answers the
question “ How would you rate the quality of care this
nurse provides to patients ? ”


6. DESCRIPTIVE RATING SCALE
 This type of Rating scale does not use numbers but
divides the assessment into series of verbal phrases to
indicate the level of performance.
In which descriptive phrases or terms assigned to each
trait. The rater enters the appropriate phrase after each
name to indicate judgement of the person.

7. NUMERICAL RATING SCALE
 It is simplest type of Rating scale , it is one in which
the rater puts a check or circles a number to indicate
degree to which a characteristics is present.
 EXAMPLE :- Pain Rating Scale.

8. COMPARATIVE RATING
SCALE
 In this type of rating scale, the rater makes a judgement about a person
attributes with another similar person.
 A comparative rating scale is a survey tool that asks respondents to compare
two or more options to determine their preferences.
 EXAMPLE :- Respondent is asked to rate the sweetshop X in comparison to
sweet shop Y
 Excellent Very good Good Both are same Poor Very poor

9. CUMULATIVE OR GUTTMANN
RATING POINT
It is an ordinary scale with a number of statements
placed in a hierarchial order. This order is arranged so
that if a respondent agrees with a statement , they will
also agree with all of the statements that fall below it
in extremity.
Guttman scale questions allow respondents to answer
a large number of questions in a short amount of time
due to the agree/disagree or yes/no answer.

11. FORCED CHOICE RATING
Forced choice questions are usually written in the
form of an agree/disagree statement or consist of
statements where respondents select the one closest to
their true feelings.

12. EXAMPLE OF FORCED
CHOICE
MOBILEPHONES REPUTATION PRICE
APPLE 1 5
SAMSUNG 3 3
OPPO 5 2
VIVO 4 1
ONEPLUS 2 4

13. CHARACTERISTICS OF
RATING SCALE
 CLARITY :- Before making rating scale, we remember that
statement are always short and concise.
 VARIETY:- When we develop rating scale that statement
should not be Monotomy.
 OBJECTIVITY :- Statement must be objective nature.
 UNIQUENESS :- Statement is always unique, not collapse
with other statement.
 RELEVANCE:- The statement should be relevant.

14. ADVANTAGES OF RATING
SCALE
 Easy to administer.
 Easy to construct.
 Can be used for large groups.
 Mainly used in Quantity Research method.
 Clarity of feedback to students.
 They are used to evaluate performance, skills, and product
outcomes.
 It is easier to make and less time consuming.
 Monitor brand loyalty

15. DISADVANTAGES OF RATING
SCALE
 If we misuse then may be objectivity decrease.
 Chance of subject evaluation.
 There is a lack of uniformity with which terms are
interpreted by evaluators.
 There is several common sources of errors in Rating
scale.
 Ambiguity
 Attitude of the Rater.

16. LIMITATIONS OF RATING
SCALE
 SUBJECTIVITY :- Different raters may have different
perspective and assign different ratings.
 CONTEXT DEPENDENCE:- Rating can be influenced by the
timing ,environment , or rater mood.
 LIMITED SCOPE:- Rating scale may not capture all relevant
aspects of the subject being assessed.

17.  MAY NOT PROVIDE ACCURATE RANKINGS.
 LACK OF SPECIFICITY IN ANSWERS.
 LIMITED INSIGHTS:- Rating scale do not allow
respondent to explain their answers in detail.

18. CHECKLIST

19.  Checklist widely used in Instrument / tool for
performance evaluation that means widely used in
Hospitals, School , Colleges.
 DEFINITION :- It is a simple instrument consisting
prepared list of expected items of performance or
attributes , which are checked by a Researcher for their
presence or absence.

21. NEEDS OF CHECKLIST
 To better organize assignments.
 To verify most important tasks easily.
 To reduce errors.
 To ensure consistency and completeness in working.
 To move quickly be more efficient and save time.

22. CHARACTERISTICS OF
CHECKLIST
 It is precise.
 It is simple and easy to use.
 It eliminate mistakes.
 It prevents forgetting something important.

23. STEPS FOR PREPARATION A
CHECKLIST
 Use proper format.
 Take knowledge of all aspects before preparing a
checklist.
 Categorise the checklist.
 Avoid making errors.
 Focus on quality not length of the checklist.

24. ADVANTAGES OF CHECKLIST
 Easy to construct and use.
 Effective for self and peer assessment.
 Save time.
 It provide a simple method to record observation.
 Helpful in evaluating procedural work.

25. DISADVANTAGES OF
CHECKLIST
 Provide limited information about how to improve
performance.
 It assures only presence or absence of behaviour.
 Its usefulness is limited.
 Does not include the quality of performance, so
usefulness of checklist is limited.

26. CONCLUSION
 At the end of the topic I conclude my topic with the help of
these different scales as Rating scale describes the observed
skills and performance. Rating scale are of great use when
used for helping teachers to evaluate students behavior.
 Checklist is a selected list of words, phrases, sentences and
paragraphs following which an observer records a check mark
to denote a presence or absence of whatever is being
observed.

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