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Chapter 2: Process for

Conducting Questionnaire

Validation Studies

The methodological approach to validate a

questionnaire shall be the same or almost the same as that

for the development of the original questionnaire because

a researcher will need to show that the newly-validated

questionnaire has a comparable level of reliability and

validity as that of the original questionnaire. Therefore, it

is compulsory for the researchers to obtain a copy of the

questionnaire construction manual which describes how

the original questionnaire had been developed. This

manual is sometimes published in a technical report, or

more o en in a published article. However, a researcher

can also opt to furnish further evidence to demonstrate