"importance scale" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "In order to prioritize tasks, we used an importance scale of 1 to 10."
For instance, if 75percentnt or more respondents provided ratings of "3" (somewhat important) or "4" (very important) on the importance scale for a particular solution, this was deemed to represent consensus of the Panel on the importance of that solution.
2. Goals and concerns: 7 items rated on an importance scale from 0 (not at all important) to 10 (extremely important).
(Frequencies, % of responses higher than 3 on a 1-5 importance scale, MAD-M) Question: How important is this feature to the definition of a CQI initiative?
Methods: Online anonymous questionnaire survey (survs.com), available through the site of the Greek Critical Care Society (icu.gr), involving ranking of factors based on importance (scale of 1 5, 5 signifying the most important) and related questions.
The importance scale is accompanied by typical linear, numeric scale language, such as "not important" and "extremely important".
Table 1 9-point intensity of relative importance scale.
The method can estimate criteria weight sensitivity by changing the relative importance scales between criteria in an AHP pairwise comparison matrix (PCM).
The 57 items are rated using 3-point frequency and importance scales.
The internal consistency of the satisfaction and importance scales in the current study were α = 0.82 and α = 0.84, respectively.
Fifteen experts with backgrounds in clinical care, management, statistics, epidemiology, health economics, social health, and psychology participated using the Like 5 importance scaling method.
Our measure of effort is derived from the Effort-Importance scale from the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (Plant & Ryan, 1985) and includes the same 6-point scale as the MUSIC Inventory.
