Validity and Reliability of the Malay Social Traits Instrument Using Rasch Measurement Model

The Malay Social Traits questionnaire has been developed to measure the core social traits that is practiced by Malay students in Public Universities for the formation of good manners and morals based on the core of Malay social traits introduced by Hashim Musa. However, of the 26 components of the social traits that were introduced, only four core social traits were focused on this study, namely the core of religion, the core of knowledge, the core of the education and the core of values. A survey was conducted on 500 Malay students in education field at five public universities. Of the 500 questionnaires distributed, only 268 were returned for analysis. The validity and reliability of the Malay Social Traits questionnaire was measured by the Rasch Measurement Model. The findings from the Winstep analysis show validity, item reliability index and respondent reliability index are relatively high. The implication of this study is to produce an instrument that can measure and identify the Malay social traits that forms manners and morals among students at the public universities.