Content Validation of Questionnaire on Social Perception of Access to Higher Education

Karla Torres Fernandez; Annia Almeyda Vazquez; Solanch Garcia Contino

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Content Validation of Questionnaire on Social Perception of Access to Higher Education

Karla Torres Fernandez, Annia Almeyda Vazquez, Solanch Garcia Contino

Published in International Journal of Vocational Education and Training Research (Volume 7, Issue 2)

Received: 2 May 2021 Accepted: 7 June 2021 Published: 10 November 2021

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This paper aims at determining the criteria from a group of experts regarding content validity of a questionnaire exploring social perception of access to higher education. It is part of the “Professional training and development” research line, developed at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Havana. Its direct methodological background is the thesis for specialization on opinion polls developed by B.A. Solanch Garcia Contino, where the process of preparation and validation of the questionnaire began. This process responds to the need for creating a tool for approaching inequality in access to higher education (which has been widely addressed in literature) from the students’ perspective. We used quantitative methodology and statistics for data processing, and the main technique is the Delphi method. The sample of experts was made up of seven professionals with high expertise on access to higher education. As key results of our research, we have that comments from the panel experts were, as a trend, positive; nevertheless, experts’ criteria did not reach consensus as to the content validity of the questionnaire on social perception of access to higher education. Accordingly, we made —taking into consideration the comments and recommendations of experts— some changes to the questionnaire, in order to present it in a second round of evaluations.

Published in	International Journal of Vocational Education and Training Research (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijvetr.20210702.13
Page(s)	58-66
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Access to Higher Education, Social Perception, Delphi Method

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Karla Torres Fernandez

Undergraduate Training Directorate, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba
Annia Almeyda Vazquez

Faculty of Psychology, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba
Solanch Garcia Contino

Undergraduate Training Directorate, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba

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