Questionnaire Testing

[Rudy321]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently an undergraduate student trying to find validity and reliability of questionnaires. I have performed equivalence testing between the questionnaires for validity, test retest for reliability, and also have done Pearson correlations to identify any relationship.

I was told I should also do paired sample t tests between the different questionnaires. Although I don't understand why because this finds the significant difference when I am trying to find that the questionnaires are similar.

If anyone could help to explain this to me that'd be great!

 

[spunky]

Wouldn't the standard way to calculate something like this would be some type of measurement invariance procedure through Structural Equation Modelling?

 

[hlsmith]

You have two questionnaires that you are using to try and measure some phenomenon, correct? Is this a supervised setting where you know the true outcome classification for the phenomenon? If not, how do you know either questionnaire is accurate.