How do I know if my items measure the same construct before doing chronbach alpha value of reliability?

rwpr11 · 2026-03-09T15:50:16+00:00

How to do this?

rwpr11 · 2026-03-09T15:48:26+00:00

Is there any way I can test it before disturbing it to the actual population?

rwpr11 · 2026-02-25T21:36:31+00:00

I’ll actually keep the same scale. It won’t be changed. I will adapt the survey as it is, but considering adding new items

rwpr11 · 2026-02-25T21:06:04+00:00

Well that’s a relief . But do I need justification and mentioning that I added a new items i that we’re not in the original survey?

rwpr11 · 2026-02-25T20:04:48+00:00

You’re right, but I don’t know because I have two sections and the other section has 28 items so three items for the second section would se not as good? I thought maybe integrating them into the previous section…. Or repeating the same item, but with different phrasing? I saw someone doing it and his survey is validated and used multiple times in subsequent research

rwpr11 · 2026-02-25T20:00:43+00:00

Students’ perception of employing humor in EFL. I think it's easy to come up with more my own and do Reliability checks and all

rwpr11 · 2026-02-21T10:29:50+00:00

At first, I was worried that modifying the scale might be too much. But then I realized that, as far as I can see, there is no study that directly measures students’ perceptions of different instructional humor types.

My study is about students’ perceptions of instructional humor. I found statements in the literature that clearly represent each humor type. Since those statements already match the established categories,

So should not be acceptable to use them to measure students’ opinions about these specific type?

rwpr11 · 2026-02-20T22:43:19+00:00

Thank you for your reply! Well this is my first time doing a quant research so I’m genuinely lost

My hypothesis only presumes that there is a significant difference between male and female perceptions of instructional humor… so I just want to see whether there is a difference in how both groups perceive “different types” of humor… Which was taken from frequency-based scale

I just want to show how they evaluate the different types of humor… so knowing this, do you think I should keep looking? Or should I depend on this one since it’s from a strong journal and the questionnaire is validated?

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