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(v) overall feedback pertaining to the applicability

and versatility of a questionnaire by the

fraternity of professionals and scholars

However, it is o en up to the individual researcher

to choose the most suitable questionnaire to validate

because this choice will very much depend on each

individual researcher’s list of priorities. In general, the

most suitable questionnaire to be chosen for validation is

the one containing the highest number of

appropriately-worded items along with having high levels

of both validity and reliability. This means that it has

already been developed in such a way that it will measure

what it intends to measure all the variables within the

same context as that of the intended respondents (such as

the time, country of origin and its cultural setting). This

can usually be determined by locating the source of

publication of the questionnaire; in that if it comes from a