Page 20 - A Step-By-Step Guide to Questionnaire Validation Research

In addition, it is o en much easier to validate an

existing questionnaire than to develop a completely new

questionnaire. This is because one of the most difficult

steps for conducting a study involving the development of

a new questionnaire is to establish a valid new set of

questions and then confirm that these questions have a

sufficient level of both reliability and validity. To do so, the

researchers must have strong background knowledge of

the subject matter in order to identify and select an

appropriate set of questions when developing a new

questionnaire from scratch. On the other hand, if the

researchers choose to merely validate the translated

version of an existing questionnaire, then the researchers

will merely have to translate all the questions from the

original questionnaire into a local (or native) language,

which will then be followed by the process of determining

both the reliability and validity of the translated