Table 2 Reasons for changing items during pre-testing (Adapted from [17])
Item Property | Reasons for change or deletion |
|---|---|
Clarity of relevance | • Not relevant to a large number of the participants • Large amounts of requests for clarification from participants • Participants interpret items in a different way than intended by the conceptual framework |
Response range | • High number of participants response at extreme ends of the scale • Participants feedback that the none of the response options apply to them |
Variability | • All participants give the same answer • Participants do not give different responses even when important differences are known |
Redundancy | • Item duplicates information collected from other items |