Adeola Abdulateef Elega

3.6 Research Procedures
This research was done using quantitative research method in the Fall semester 2014. 
A survey was conducted in this respect in order words questionnaires were 
administered to collect data. The survey was first piloted with ten Turkish graduate 
students Faculty of Architecture. This effort was to see the level of understanding of 
questions asked. Also, the effort is to detect how clear and concise the questions as it 
is targeted to be simple for every participant. The long intense correction made 
questions to be written in the simplest words that needs no dictionary. Then, the 
written consent of Deans of three faculties was obtained (Appendix 2). The 
researcher distributes questionnaires to the participants after piloting and optimum 
scrutiny from supervisor. After all this was done, the collected data was put through 
Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). 

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3.7 Reliability and Validity of Research 
Survey got started after all Deans of the three faculties signed the permission to 
conduct the survey among Nigerian students in all three faculties. As the word 
implies, validity is basically the quality of the rigor of a particular research. 
Reliability also means the quality of a particular research to be dependable and 
consistent. Both are very important to the life of every research because it is the 
measurement of the strength, credibility and trustworthiness. In the measure of the 
strength of this research, to test its validity, the survey was prepared and tested with 
ten Turkish graduate students Faculty of Architecture who study in Eastern 
Mediterranean University in Fall semester, 2014. 
In a nutshell, for validity of this study, a pilot study was done with ten Turkish 
graduate students faculty of Architecture. For the reliability of this study, for all 
Likert scale questions (30 in all), a factor analysis was done for 30 Likert scale type 
questions on the questionnaire. The alpha coefficient of the whole questionnaire is 
found to be 0.807 which indicates a very high reliability (Nunnally, 1967 p.206). 
Table 1.1: Reliability Statistics 
Case Processing Summary 
N 
% 
Cases Valid 
Excluded
a
Total 
238 
1 
239 
99.6 
.4 
100.0 
a. Listwise deletion based on all variables in the procedure. 

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Table 1.2: Cronbach’s alpha 
Cronbach’s 
Alpha 
N of Items 
.807 
31 

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