Page 51 - A Step-By-Step Guide to Questionnaire Validation Research

The above proposition also illustrates the point that

Question 2 is an example of a good question in a

questionnaire. This is because, irrespective of logistical

problems or whether (or not) the parents who can afford

tuition fees, spending a specific time within a day for the

parents to supervise their children to read will always be

doable. From these examples, it is now clear that certain

questions for a domain subscale in a questionnaire may

not be applicable to a subset of a local respondent

population because they have different baseline

characteristics. Therefore, a researcher will need to first

examine the differing baseline characteristics that may

exist within the local respondent population in order to

make allowances for them when he/she develops the items

in a questionnaire. This can be achieved by rephrasing or

modifying the original item in the questionnaire.