I would be very interested in seeing your results. I'm also interested in why you think item randomization is important. I'm aware that there is some bias towards answering areas in web surveys. I'm also aware of the argument that any changes to a survey at the participant level create different environments and thus make the data questionable. By the way, http://birat.net is free including the source in ASP, but only runs on Windows Servers, and does not provide item randomization. Charlie Balch LSU Graduate Student, Instructional Technology -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Ulf-Dietrich Reips Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:05 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; Denise N. Rall Subject: Re: [Air-l] Any opinions about Opinio web survey software Hi Denise, all, in my research group we are currently undertaking an evaluation of all Web surveying software we are aware of. These are about 400 different products. We are half way through the evaluation. In the first step we boiled down the large number of tools to about 30, using three criteria that seemed most important to us: freeware or low price, platform independence, availability of item randomization. Surveymonkey (now Opinio) is one of the 30, and independent from this evaluation we have heard many positive reports from users. Also, one of the leading Web surveying experts, Dr. Michael Bosnjak, recommends it with convincing arguments. We will continue with our evaluation by applying further selection criteria and evaluate and experimentally test about 10 tools for use by laypeople and experts in Web surveying. And then let you know what we found :-) Best --u -- PD Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips President, Society for Computers in Psychology (http://scip.ws) Editor, International Journal of Internet Science (http://www.ijis.net) Universität Zürich Psychologisches Institut Rämistr. 62 8001 Zürich, Switzerland iScience portal (http://psych-iscience.unizh.ch/) _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/