Citation

Shields TJ, Silcock GWH, Donegan HA, Bell YA. Fire Technol. 1987; 23(3): 175-185.

Affiliation

Department of Building, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, U. K.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01036934

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this article some of the methodological problems associated with using the Delphi technique for the development of a Firesafety Evaluation (Points) Scheme are examined. These problems relate to: questionnaire design, the merits and demerits of Delphi groups versus panel groups, the definition of key terms (such as expert, consensus and stability), the reliability, validity and level of measurement achieved by Likert-type scaling techniques, and the differences in the decisionmaking processes of expert and nonexpert groups.