Asian Association for Language Assessment

This  workshop aims to provide an introduction to questionnaire development  and questionnaire analyses for language assessment use and research  purposes. In language testing and assessment, questionnaires are popular  instruments for eliciting students’ psychological aspects (e.g.,  cognitive processes, motivation, and anxiety) as well as other aspects  such as beliefs, attitudes and experiences. In this workshop, we will  discuss and address:

• Contexts in which questionnaires can be appropriately used

• Strengths and weaknesses of questionnaires

• Stages in a questionnaire development

• Essential components of a questionnaire

• Questionnaire taxonomy

• Scales and quantification

• Validity and reliability of a questionnaire

• Qualitative data in questionnaires

• Types of statistical analyses

• Examples of questionnaires and practice

Participants  in this workshop will form a small group of 4-5 people and will be  provided with activities and tasks related to each of the aspects above.  They may be asked to share their discussion or work to the whole class.

Required reading

Phakiti, A. (2014). Questionnaire development and analysis. In A.J. Kunnan (ed), The companion to language assessment (pp. 1245-1261). London: John Wiley & Sons.