Open questions. That reminds me, I need some discourse analysis software. Anyone got experience in this area? Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "John B. White" <john.white@wku.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Web-based Surveys
I find cold-fusion works wonderfully for a middleware solution. The back end can be almost any database product, so long as the server has the appropriate drivers. SPSS and SAS can both import tab delimited, ascii text, or in the case of dbf or mdb files, directly query the datatabels themselves to bring the data over analysis.
Using this method requires the researcher or a programer to understand HTML forms, submission, and SQL. Once you get those down, Cold-Fusion is a fairly easy to learn product with its tag based format. Homesite is the editor of choice (even above Dreamweaver) although you can use other editors. I find this particularly useful when i want to use open ended questions. You can capture rich data in a memo field (in MS Access or other format) and supplement that with more objective, Likert questions and other traditional survey instruments.
--JW
Ben Davidson wrote:
Hi Lon,
You ask about the practicalitites of designing online surveys with backend db facilities. I've just spent a few weeks teaching myself asp/sql code (with substantial help from another listmember here!) to do just that.
I'd be interested to hear more about the software you mention, but also skeptical as to its versatility. It makes me think of Dreamweaver, which is an excellent tool for building websites, but the amount of times I have to go into the code and sort out problems leaves me thinking it would be impossible to rely on it alone. I imagine the same applies to the tool you're aiming to use, and that it is likely to be useful if you are designing lots of web-surveys with back-end db. to speed up the process, but will not substitute for learning the code.
You can see the results of my labours here: http://www.online-supervision.net/RegisterInterest.asp
Ben (Available for hire!)
----- Original Message ----- From: <Berquist@uts.cc.utexas.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:42 PM Subject: [Air-l] Web-based Surveys
A few months ago, there was some discussion about online surveys--particularly regarding methodology and design. My question is more practical--can anyone recommend software to design a web-displayed survey that will easily capture data into a backend database? I've looked at SPSS Data Entry (TM), but would like to receive recommendations from others who have completed web-based surveys and are pleased with the software they have worked with.
Thanks,
Lon Berquist Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute The University of Texas at Austin
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