Design and validation of a questionnaire to assess Whatsapp in the regulation of group work

This article describes the process followed in the design and validation of a questionnaire whose goal is to understand and describe the use of the application WhatsApp for mobile telephony, carried out by the students of degree from the University of Cordoba as they wrestle a task group, as well as the advantages and disadvantages accruing to these. Methodologically, we used a research design sequential mixed. In the first phase, surveyed 58 students of degree of the various macro-areas that have representation at the University of Cordoba with an instrument of open-ended responses that were analysed qualitatively. The obtained results allowed to remove the dimensions and items for the creation of an initial questionnaire. In the second phase, the instrument designed was applied to a group informant composed of 78 students with the above-mentioned characteristics was subjected to various validation testing Psychometric to find out its reliability and validity for its further generalization.