[Air-L] Seeking web survey apps that save data incrementally

Monica Barratt tronica at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 22:38:24 PDT 2010


Hi AoIRers

In my readings of methods papers on web survey design, I have noticed
that some researchers are able to determine when people drop out of a
survey. Obviously their survey software enables them to save data
incrementally as the person completes the survey, rather than just at
the end if they choose to hit the submit button.

Survey apps I have used - including Survey Monkey, Survey Gizmo and
Lime Survey - don't appear to allow this (correct me if I'm wrong!).

So, can anyone tell me how I can create a research survey which saves
data incrementally without being a computer programmer?

Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom :)

Monica

Monica Barratt
http://monicabarratt.net


PS. I am also interested in collecting 'paradata' (data about how the
person completes the survey). I just read a great article on this
topic by Stieger and Reips - http://tinyurl.com/2al9ry4 - where they
describe use of a User Action Tracker tool which I'm excited about
looking into further as well.



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