[Air-l] Any opinions about Opinio web survey software

[Charlie Balch]

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

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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		 
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	    8001 Zürich, Switzerland

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