The Development of Practical Guidelines for Designing Online Questionnaires
Questionnaires are an inexpensive way to gather data from a potentially large number of respondents. However, it is a long and effort consuming process to conduct the survey manually. As the popularity of the Internet increases, online survey creation software allows an access to individuals in...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/222/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/222/1/The_Development_of_Practical_Guidelines.pdf |
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| Summary: | Questionnaires are an inexpensive way to
gather data from a potentially large number of
respondents. However, it is a long and effort consuming
process to conduct the survey manually. As the
popularity of the Internet increases, online survey
creation software allows an access to individuals in
distant locations, the ability to reach difficult to contact
participants, and the convenience of having automated
data collection, which reduces researcher time and effort.
The aim of this study is to develop an Online
Questionnaire Builder (OQB), which is an online survey
software package to streamline and simplify the entire
survey process from design of the questionnaire to the
presentation of the results. OQB consists of an intuitive
wizard interface for creating surveys, tools for
distributing the surveys and analyzing the results. This
paper presents the results of our preliminary study. By
studying wide numbers of existing surveys, we came up
with practical guidelines that should be met before a
questionnaire can be considered a sound research tool.
The guidelines presented in terms of structure, layout,
navigation, formatting, response format and question
types. It is expected, with the specified guidelines, OQB
will be a useful and automated online application for
creating and distributing surveys for the use of
researchers or any scholars. |
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