Online survey tools
From Dar
What tools are available to the researcher wishing to conduct an online survey and to what extent are they appropriate for Distributed Action Research?
- One option is to build your own online survey website and host it yourself. You might want to program this from scratch probably in a scripting language, or some service providers include a 'form making' service which is quick and easy to customise.
- Another option is to try and make use of one of the commercial online survey building services.
- Survey Monkey is one such, and the free version allows for a 10 questions survey, with up to 100 respondents. This may be sufficient for some Action Research purposes, or you can upgrade for the full version. The important thing is that this one can ask questions with multiple answers, ask a questions and get respondents to rate the level to which they agree, as well as ask open questions and record those open answers in their entirety.
- others:
- Stat pac This one generates html pages which you can then edit in Dreamweaver or Frontpage and host on your own site. A comprehensive package but orientated towards market research
- http://info.zoomerang.com/ participants can instantly see the survey results
- http://www.albany.edu/cpr/gf/resources/survey-tools-online.html Links to survey tools online
