Hello,

Could you provide the example question and verbatim answer categories?

That would help

Regards

in order to do interpretation for the Likert scale, you need to identify which items belong to Internal LC and which Items to External LC. You can find this in the scale properties as it was developed by the original author.

Locus of control is a psychological concept that refers to how strongly people believe they have control over the situations and experiences that affect their lives. In education, locus of control typically refers to how students perceive the causes of their academic success or failure in school.

Students with an “internal locus of control” generally believe that their success or failure is a result of the effort and hard work they invest in their education. Students with an “external locus of control” generally believe that their successes or failures result from external factors beyond their control, such as luck, fate, circumstance, injustice, bias, or teachers who are unfair, prejudiced, or unskilled. For example, students with an internal locus of control might blame poor grades on their failure to study, whereas students with an external locus of control may blame an unfair teacher or test for their poor performance.

Dear Prof. Muayyad Ahmad:

Thank you for your answer.  Very comprehensive indeed.  Yes we have already identified the internal and external scores for each question.  In fact we have categorized the questions into four constructs namely Academic Commitment, Academic Motivation, Academic Performance and Career Aspirations.  And this study is conducted on a large sample of MBA students in India.

Thanks again and best regards

Bharathi

Dear Prof. Witold Orlik:

Here is a couple of sample questions

Q1. "A subject however tough it is, if I prepare well I will succeed with top grade in that subject?" Rating Scale 5 4 3 2 1 (Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree) 

Q2. "I have my own limitations, hence no extra inputs or guidance will lead me to success in academics.".  Rating Scale 5 4 3 2 1 (Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree)

Thanks and best regards

Bharathi

Dear Vijayakumar,

Q1. If a respondent agrees with the question it indicated her or his internal locus of control ('it is up to my effort and work so I could excel - clearly internal locus of control). If not, then external locus of control is indicated ('no matter what effort I will put in, I will fail as I am as stupid as a shoe' [sorry for Polish saying not exactly transferable into English - pretty self-explanatory though]. 

Q2 - seems to be the other way around, those who agree with it are characterised with external locus, and those who disagree with internal one. 

So while creating total scores one of them should be recoded so the higher scores on both would indicate the same (either internal or external locus). 

Best wishes

Are there parameters/cut off point which seperates high/low scores? In other words what is high and what is low?

Dear Prof. Xaba:  We are using a 5-point Likert scale as state above.  Are you referring about the scores for deciding Internal or External Locus?  We are not very clear as to how to decide the locus from the scores.  

Sir which scale you are using ????