Development and Validation of Self-Report Questionnaires

This chapter reports procedures for developing and validating two self-report instruments: Questionnaire on Metacognitive Knowledge about Text Revision (QWKTR) and Second Language Text Revision Self-Efficacy Scale (L2TRSS) Exploratory factor analysis and a subsequent confirmatory factor analysis validated a five-factor correlated structure of metacognitive knowledge about text revision, including self-knowledge of personal learning process, self-knowledge of personal competence, self-knowledge of difficulties, task knowledge, and strategy knowledge. The second section of this chapter presents procedures for validating L2TRSS. Results of factor analyses validated a two-factor structure of self-efficacy for text revision: self-efficacy for high-level text revision, and self-efficacy for low-level text revision.