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Data Collection Tool: Reliability and Validity

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Data Collection Tool: Reliability and Validity

Data Collection Tool: Questionnaire

In my study proposal, I mean to use the quantitative research method to examine the

sentence disparities between minorities and other groups. I will utilize an organized

questionnaire as the information collection tool to collect the needed information. This

organized questionnaire will be a standard collection of closed-ended inquiries to acquire

particular information from judges and prosecutors. The questions will certainly include a

collection of Likert-scale items, enabling judges and prosecutors to express their agreement

or disagreement with statements related to the sentence disparities between minorities and

other groups. I will develop each inquiry to determine various elements of the sentence

disparities between minorities and other groups, ensuring extensive insurance coverage of the

study goals. It will consist of group inquiries to collect information concerning the

background information, which may give valuable understandings throughout the information

evaluation.

Addressing Validity and Reliability

In addressing validity, I intend to examine content validity. An expert panel judges,

prosecutors, and legal scholars the initial questionnaire draft, ensuring that content validity

prevails. Their input will sharpen question phrasing, verifying the accurate measurement of

intended constructs and encompassing all pertinent components. Content validity within a

measurement tool demonstrates how each element fulfills its purpose (Surucu & Maslakci,

2020). Construct validity is another aspect I aim to explore. I intend to apply both exploratory

and confirmatory factor analyses to establish this. Using a pilot sample, exploratory factor

analysis will unveil underlying variables and evaluate whether questions align as anticipated.

Confirmatory factor analysis on the primary data set will reinforce the factor structure from
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the exploratory phase. I intend to address Criterion-Related Validity. I will compare the

results of my questionnaire with an existing validated instrument that measures a similar

construct. This will help establish criterion-related validity by demonstrating that my

instrument produces comparable results.

On reliability, I intend to address Test-Retest Reliability, Parallel Forms Reliability,

and Internal Consistency Reliability. To address Test-Retest Reliability, a subset of judges

and prosecutors will complete the questionnaire twice, with a reasonable time gap. This

approach ensures the consistency and stability of the questionnaire responses. The responses

from the two administrations will be analyzed using a correlation coefficient (such as

Pearson's correlation) to determine the consistency of responses over time. A high and

statistically significant correlation between the two sets of responses would indicate good

Test-Retest Reliability. To address Parallel Forms Reliability, I will develop two versions of

the questionnaire with equivalent but slightly different questions to measure the same

constructs. Judges and prosecutors will be randomly assigned to complete either version.

Correlation analysis will determine the degree of agreement between the scores obtained

from the two versions. A high correlation indicates good parallel Forms Reliability,

demonstrating that different forms of the instrument yield consistent results. I will assess

Internal Consistency Reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. This statistic measures

the extent to which items within the questionnaire correlate (Taber, 2018). A high Cronbach's

alpha value suggests that the items are measuring the same construct consistently, enhancing

the overall reliability of the instrument. This assessment will ensure that the questionnaire's

items effectively capture the intended variable without excessive redundancy or

inconsistency.
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References

Surucu, L., & Maslakci, A. (2020). Validity and Reliability in Quantitative Research.

Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 8(3), 2694–2726.

https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v8i3.1540

Taber, K. S. (2018). Using Cronbach's alpha when developing and reporting research

Instruments in science education. Research in Science Education, 48(6), 1273–1296.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-016-9602-2

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