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Repertory Grid Tool helps you to administer personal construct interviews.

Following Kelly's (1955) personal construct theory, the repertory grid technique assumes people construe their view of the world in their own terms. A repertory grid is one way of getting to these constructs by using a set of elements and asking people how they differtiate these elements from each other.

Typically, three elements are selected from a larger set, and an interviewee is asked which two of these three are alike in some way and different from the other. The contrast given (for example, friendly versus unfriendly) is also used as a dimension to rate all elements, usually on a 7 point scale. Then the cycle repeats with another triad.

This web tool can be used during an interview to note the contrasting terms and rate each element using these terms as opposites on a scale. The advantage over using a paper form is the ease of generating a randomised grid for each interview. During the interview, rating of each element on their own scale is simplified (without typical confusion over the direction of the scale).

Additional information and source code are available on GitHub.

Grid settings
Procedure settings

The example shows how the randomised element selection is revealed per contrast-pair. By default, this selection is not shown until the row is clicked first. This avoids participants looking ahead at future comparisons. Thus, a first click reveals the selection. Further clicks toggle the visibility of rating scales for that contrast-pair.

You're ready to go!

Upon generating the grid existing data for this participant is reset. It's best to only adjust settings before starting an interview. Once done, this settings panel can be closed.

Do the interview

Good luck!

Results

When the interview is over, come back here to grab the results. Copy the full contents of the text field below in a text file and save it as a comma-separated file (.csv). This file can be imported in your analysis software of choice.

Depending on your locale and analysis software the preferred separator symbol can be different. Choosing a different symbol may ease import.