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Constructing a Survey with Birnbaum’s SurveyWiz. A 5 Minute Introduction to putting your Survey on the WWW. Step Back: The Big Picture. Plan to Answer a Question Design the Survey Prepare for the Web (SurveyWiz) Test Survey, Data, and Analysis Upload to WWW
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Constructing a Survey with Birnbaum’s SurveyWiz A 5 Minute Introduction to putting your Survey on the WWW
Step Back: The Big Picture • Plan to Answer a Question • Design the Survey • Prepare for the Web (SurveyWiz) • Test Survey, Data, and Analysis • Upload to WWW • Publicize & Recruit Participation • Analyze Data to Answer the Question
Steps • Plan the Data Analysis First • Write, Edit, and Perfect the Survey • Will it Answer the Question? • Write the Long Title: To Participants • Write the Short Title: To Researchers • Write the File Name: e.g., YouLike.htm • Enter in SurveyWiz, Review, Edit • Save on Desktop with .htm extension • (Next Lecture: Upload via FTP to server)
Example: Is Correlation Between Fear of Driving and Accidents Positive or Negative? • Causation vs Correlation--fear might cause safer driving, accidents might cause fear, etc. • Meas No. Accidents & Fear of Driving • Long Title: Fear of Driving • Short Title: DrivingFear1 • Filename: Driving_Fear1.htm
Free Web Site:http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/programs/ For Today’s lecture choose SurveyWiz3
Final Steps • Edit HTML, e.g., BGCOLOR=papayawhip • Edit Instructions • Push “Save” Button, which reminds you to copy the HTML to a Text Editor (NotePad, not Word) • Save with .htm extension, DrivingFear.htm • Check that it works • Retrieve and View the Data
Next Lectures: • Checking the HTML • Checking the Data Coding • Pilot Testing • Uploading to WWW • Further Testing (browsers, systems) • Publicizing • Data Analysis