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However, since a researcher usually does not know

whether (or not) those new items which have been

rephrased/modified are actually better than the original

ones; therefore, the best way is to obviate the need to

substitute the original items with the rephrased/modified

ones. Instead, it would be far better to initially conduct the

survey by combining these original items from the original

questionnaire with a list of newly revised questions (which

are formed by rephrasing and/or modifying the original

questions). Then, a researcher shall have to decide

whether (or not) it is desirable or necessary to substitute

the original items in the original questionnaire with the

rephrased/modified ones by performing the necessary

statistical tests (Bujang et., al., 2016).

This brings us to the next step, in which a

researcher must decide whether to remove the item(s)

from the questionnaire, add more item(s), or re-insert the