The first version of the questionnaire consisted of 78 items.
The final version of the questionnaire, which as named as "Strategy Inventory for Test Taking" was comprised of 66 items from Part A to Part D as explained below.
Each question used a five-point Likert-Scale ranging from "always use", "often use," "seldom use", "never use," to "previously used" category.
A pilot study was conducted with 32 Japanese college students majoring in English on November 25, 2011 to evaluate the questionnaire.
The result of experiment and questionnaire analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Science Version 18.0., They set six factors to analyze with Cronbach's alpha.
Afterward, they picked up factor loading of more than .30.