Essential elements of questionnaire design and development.

By J. Rattray, Martyn C. Jones. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2007

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Enhancing urban biodiversity and its influence on city-dwellers: An experiment (2014, methodology): “We then constructed a biodiversity perception measure summing those items, after confirming the measure’s reliability, by verifying that Cronbach’s alpha was superior 0.7 (0.77) and that inter-item correlation was not inferior to 0.3 or superior to 0.7 (Rattray and Martyn, 2007 and ref. within).”
Deciding on the Scale Granularity of Response Categories of Likert Type Scales: The Case of a 21-Point Scale (2011, methodology): “According to Rattray & Jones (2007), Likert type scales are one of a range of scale types that researchers can choose from, and they identify Frequency, Thurstone, Rasch, Guttman, Mokken and Multiple choice formats as alternatives.”
A reliable and valid questionnaire was developed to measure computer vision syndrome at the workplace. (2015, background): “The main strength of this study is the high degree of compliance with the methodological steps recommended in the international scientific literature for the design and validation of health questionnaires [54].”
Claremont Purpose Scale: A Measure that Assesses the Three Dimensions of Purpose among Adolescents (2018, background): “Direct oblimin rotation is an oblique rotation that allows for, and measures, the correlation between factors, which we expected to find in the purpose scale (Osborne & Costello, 2009; Rattray & Jones, 2007).”