Creating a Questionnaire or Scale Form

Abstract

For the measurement of social sciences, the aspects of data must be always considered as the first stage of data collection. To collect the data related to affective domain, the questionnaire and interview will be employed. The questionnaire or scale developer should, therefore, deeply understand for the development of research instrument.

             To collect the data for conducting research in social sciences, the process of development must be systematically and clearly understood. It should begin with evaluating the content validity of the rating scale by experts. The next step is to tryout the scale to find the decimation power and statistical significance of each item. The number of items that reached the committed criteria will be selected equal to the specified amount. Finally, the whole questionnaire or scale will be evaluated to find the reliability. After the completion of conducting research instrument as mentioned earlier, it is ready for implementing to collect data regarding the goals of research.