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Also, I was awarded a grant to validate a questionnaire evaluating clinicians’ impressions of electronic decision making tools.

I have used this approach to publish questionnaire-based articles. So I took little pieces here and there from articles, books, and webpages and compiled them into own comprehensive approach to validating questionnaires. The books contained useful information on how to create questions and what response scales to use, but they lacked start to finish instructions on how to validate. After graduating I was determined to find out how to validate surveys, so I checked out some books from my school’s library and purchased others from Amazon. Aren’t questionnaires one of the most common methods of data collection in the social sciences? They are. I found it strange that faculty in a psychology department were unable to tell a graduate student how to validate a survey. He has been a member of Methodspace for several years. He has published several quantitative and qualitative research articles in healthcare, psychology, and statistics. In fact, no one seemed able to help.ĭave Collingridge is a senior research statistician for a large healthcare organization located in Utah, USA. I repeatedly asked professors, “Can you tell me how to validate the questions in my survey?” The response was usually a polite, “I can’t, but have you tried talking to doctor so and so, he might be able to help.” Doctor so and so couldn’t help either. I remember years ago walking the halls of the faculty offices at my university asking for help on validating a questionnaire.