Questionnaire DevelopmentTo create psychological measuring tools, test developers initially write as many as twice the number of items that will appear in the final draft of their questionnaires. They

Piloting the Survey or Questionnaire PSY3700 Multimedia Assessment and Psychometrics ©20 16 South University 2 Piloting the Survey or Questionnaire Creating the Questionnaire After constructing the survey instrument, the next step in the survey planning process is a brief exploratory investigation known as a pilot study. As a method used to determine the feasibility of conducting a survey, whether offline or online, the pilot study offers a dress rehearsal of sorts. In the long run, it may save a test developer valuable time as it can effectively identify methods, q uestionnaire items, or other issues, such as with data analysis, that need to be reexamined (Leedy & Ormrod, 2001). An important consideration for the pilot or tryout sample of respondents is to make certain that it is representative of the population for which the measure is intended. Moreover, the size of the sample should be appropriate to ensure that the sample is representative. It’s good to have five to ten respondents for every item of the questionnaire (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2002). If that is not possi ble, Rust and Golombok (2009) suggested that the pilot sample size be approximately equal to the number of test items plus one. The pilot study should be launched under the same conditions as the planned administrations of the test, and all nuances of the testing process should be as similar as possible to those of the planned administrations to guard against the influence of extraneous factors (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2002). The analysis of the data from the pilot study guides the selection of best -fit test ite ms to be included in the next revision of the test. Drafting an item analysis table is a useful strategy for calculating item facility. Item discrimination and identifying the value of distracters in the array of responses are other tasks under the heading of item analysis. The item analysis process allows for the refinement of the rough draft to help boost the psychometric properties of the revised tool (Rust & Golombok, 2009). PSY3700 Multimedia Assessment and Psychometrics ©20 16 South University 3 Piloting the Survey or Questionnaire Creating the Questionnaire References Cohen, R., & Swerdlik, M. (2002). Psychological testing and asses sment: An introduction to test and measurement (5th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw -Hill. Leedy, P., & Ormrod, J. (2001). Practical research planning and design (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall. Rust, J., & Golombok, S. (2009). Modern psyc hometrics: The science of psychological assessment (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis. © 201 6 South University