January 26, 2004
Web-based survey tools
THIS WEEK NetSpeak focuses on a few programs/services that can be used to create/administer web-based surveys.
We often come across many situations in which we need to conduct a survey to get the feedback from a target group. For example, a trainer would like to conduct a survey among the course participants to get an idea about the effectiveness of training. In most of the surveys, though, generally, we need only a few frequency tables and some summary statistics, we have to do such mundane survey design/administration tasks as framing the questionnaire, distributing it among the participants and compiling the results. One solution to minimise this survey burden is to automate the various tasks mentioned above and conduct the survey on-line. Here, we will discuss the features of a few PHP-based programs that let us conduct a survey completely on-line.
We often come across many situations in which we need to conduct a survey to get the feedback from a target group. For example, a trainer would like to conduct a survey among the course participants to get an idea about the effectiveness of training. In most of the surveys, though, generally, we need only a few frequency tables and some summary statistics, we have to do such mundane survey design/administration tasks as framing the questionnaire, distributing it among the participants and compiling the results. One solution to minimise this survey burden is to automate the various tasks mentioned above and conduct the survey on-line. Here, we will discuss the features of a few PHP-based programs that let us conduct a survey completely on-line.
