Survey and Questionnaire Design

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Apr, 2009
Survey & Questionnaire Design
Free online tutorial made available by StatPac Inc.: it has been taken from a chapter in the book 'Survival Statistics' by Prof. David Walonick from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The whole book can be purchased from the site. The tutorial, which aims to teach users how to conduct a survey and design a questionnaire, is over 20 pages long can be downloaded in Word or PDF format, or read online. Topics covered include: research methods; cost considerations; order of questions; incentives; flow charts; response rate and following up of non-respondents; anonymity and confidentiality; sampling methods; time considerations; non-response bias and the meaning of 'significance'. The tutorial can also be emailed to the user. The focus is on questions that will collect quantitative data rather than qualitative. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.statpac.com/surveys/

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Library survey tools

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 May, 2008
Librarian and trainer supreme, Diane Kovacs, tells ResourceShelf that she has revised several of her important library and core collection surveys using Survey Monkey. We encourage all of you to complete and use the numerous surveys.

She tells ResourceShelf:

I’ve re-created these updated surveys on SurveyMonkey after receiving back many useful suggestions for making it more useful. I am revising other subject reference surveys as well and will post when they are ready. As always, I will post the data I’ve gathered on core subject reference topics back to the lists I posted the surveys to for everyone to share as well as posting the data to http://www.kovacs.com/misc.html. Data from previous years is available on that page now scroll down past the current survey links.

Direct links to the Surveys:

++ Library Vocabulary Survey

++ Ready Reference Core Tools Survey (Multi-Subject)

++ Collection Development Core Tools Survey

Source: Diane Kovacs

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Using Google Docs for Surveys

Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Apr, 2008

...Let’s say you want to poll your clients, members, staff or any other group of people about a specific issue, or — if you are a researcher — you want to make a survey of a particular set of respondents.

Normally you would send out a paper based form, or you would use one of the more expensive web-based solutions.

Google is giving the tool away for free. Here’s what you do:

  1. If you do not have a Gmail account already, sign up for one and sign in.
  2. Click on the Documents link at the upper left hand corner. This will bring you to Google Docs, Google’s online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation package.
  3. Select New/Spreadsheet.
  4. Google will open a new spreadsheet in a separate tab or window.
  5. Click on the Share tab to the right.
  6. You are now given the option of inviting people to be collaborators, viewers or to fill out a form. Select the last option.
  7. Click on Start editing the form. Google will open a new window where you can design the form.

You may now develop your form using different types of questions, including plain text entries, multiple choice, check boxes or lists.

You can use the form for the simplest of tasks — let’s say for asking people to sign up for an event (one question only) — or for more complex surveys including a large number of questions and field types.

When you have finished you enter the email-addresses of the respondents.

The respondents will et an email leading them to the form. As soon as they have filled in form, your spreadsheet will be updated...[more]

Pandia 

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