[Air-l] survey questionnaire

Frank Thomas news.ftr at free.fr
Wed Nov 15 09:06:30 PST 2006


Kevin Guidry wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Nancy Baym <nbaym at ku.edu> wrote:
>   
>> A number of our grad students are using Survey Monkey
>> (www.surveymonkey.com) for posting web surveys. I have heard mixed
>> things about the extent of its data analysis components and
>> flexibility with layout, but those I know working with it say it
>> seems to basically function well.
>>     
>
>    I think that's an accurate evaluation of SurveyMonkey.  It's pretty
> cheap and very good at what it does (basic surveys).  It does not
> really have any analysis tools to speak of other than some *very*
> basic descriptive stats.  I don't know how well it would work for
> non-English surveys.
>    GMU's Center for History and New Media (the same people that
> brought us Zotero) has what appears to be a free online survey tool at
> http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/.  I played with it for about 30
> seconds once, long enough to figure out that it doesn't appear to
> support branching logic.  

I confirm your experience. And the form is in English only, as it's 
conceived for the evaluation of (US university) courses, if I understand 
well. So, less useful for the  multi-lingual Internet world.  However 
what is nice : you can export the data in tab-delimited format.

Even if this is an Internet-related list I would also like to get some 
info about conventional paper and pencil questionnaire layout programmes 
(if this exists)

- Frank Thomas



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