Page 14 - A Step-By-Step Guide to Questionnaire Validation Research

Chapter 1: Introduction

A questionnaire is a universal tool that has

commonly been used to collect relevant and intended

information from the respondents of a survey. The

researchers o en use the questionnaire to collect the

relevant information from the respondents in order to

measure each of the variables or items constituting its

domain of interest, and also for addressing the objectives

of a research study. Assume that a validated questionnaire

was created in a non-native language, such as English,

because it was intended for English-speaking respondents.

If the original English version of these questionnaires must

be administered to a group of non-English-speaking

respondents, we must first ensure that the original