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
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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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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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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Or to put it another way, has anyone written anything suitable that they might be willing to trade for some work setting up html/asp forms, to insert data into sql db's? Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Davidson" <bendavidson@totalise.co.uk> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Web-based Surveys
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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Hi Lon, et al, There's an Australian mob called The Online Assessment Company (https://theoac.com/mainset.html) who run surveys, polls and examinations on-line. The idea is: they host it (or you can, if you like the software), you design it, they run it and you get the results analysed how you want them (or raw, if you like). No idea what the fees will be like, but I've played with their survey-creation interface, and it's pretty powerful. They've also got an impressive client catalog. The guy to e-mail for info is Craig Burton. Cheers, Hughie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Davidson" <bendavidson@totalise.co.uk> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Web-based Surveys Or to put it another way, has anyone written anything suitable that they might be willing to trade for some work setting up html/asp forms, to insert data into sql db's? Ben
----- 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
RE: Dreamweaver- I will just weigh in with rather than relying on Dreamweaver for a database use UltraDev instead as the database engine. Denise Rall, drall@scu.edu.au School of Education, Southern Cross University PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480 Australia Phone: +1-61-2-6624-5497 Fax: +1-61-2-6624-8637 Mobile 0438 233 344 ===== Phone: (02)6620 3577 Mobile: 0438 233 344 Triple S-F, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator ENVSCI, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
i would highly recommend that you "roll your own" survey instead of relying on the pre-packaged variety. i have run over 4 web based surveys (n =200 - 800/survey) and found that you can do wonders with a smart undergraduate who knows perl and html. all my surveys were password protected and generated unique id's for the participants. it is then a trivial task to create a comma seperated values file that can be inputted into any database or stats package. you can even create a reports page that would give upto date summary statistics on the data. hth, karim Quoting Berquist@uts.cc.utexas.edu:
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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I've really liked Perseus Software's SurveySolutions. You (or an assistant) may want to clean the code up a bit, and you'll need to become accustomed to the program's layout scheme. But there are wizards and menus so that you dont really have to learn much, and you write hte survey in MS Word. The software then generates HTML surveys from Word documents, builds the database automatically, and allows several options for collecting the data. It does have some weaknesses - but it's also very user-friendly, and relatively inexpensive. Ellis
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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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