MY CHAPTER THREE EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY This chapter explains the methodology used in the present study including the description of research design, research framework, conceptualization of construct, research instrument, population and sample, sampling techniques, pilot study, changes made after pilot study, data collection, administration of survey, handling missing values, establishment of its validity and reliability, data analysis and summary. Open Science is the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiry society (FOSTER, 2015). Validity and reliability of such instrument that will be available for all and sundry must receive scholarly acceptance through (I-CVI and S-CVI) validity and reliability coefficient (alpha) test. Validity and reliability are words that have definite constructive implications in gaining approval in a scientific research. For instrument to be characterized as valid and reliable, it is to be in an agreement with scholarly procedures. The same applies to the type of test, experiment or measuring method used. When an instrument is valid and reliable, it means it has passed through a long way of gaining acceptance scientifically. The instrument used was developed with a comprehensive reading in the literature of open science, and understanding theory of readiness, Blooms and Krathwohl’s taxonomies and models. The validity and reliability of this study is essential to the open scholarly communication awareness, practices and perception, especially to academic researchers in Malaysia where practices are not profound. The instrument and the outcomes are considered having a good content validity for both the I-CVI and S-CVI and reliability coefficient. Chapter four begins the analysis of the data collected and its interpretations.