Good suggestions Claudia. I used Google Forms to collect data from an online experiment I created. It's not a perfect way to collect data. The identity of the respondents is not collected, but a subject could take the experiment more than once. Still, Forms could be used for student projects. Here's where I show how I used it:
http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2009/08/episode-102-how-to-create-an-online-experiment-on-eyewitness-testimony-accuracy/ Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Apr 7, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: > > > > Mike Palij asks about google forms. > > I've used these a bit. You can create a variety of survey questions using > google forms and either embed these in an email message or direct respondents > to a web site where they can answer questions. > > It is fairly easy to create questions. You can do open-ended questions or > Likert-type scales. I don't think there is a good mechanism for creating > conditional branches. > > I've used google forms for fairly short and simple surveys when I want quick > answers (e.g., follow-up questions to evaluate a workshop) and don't need a > complicated form. The biggest complaint I have about google forms is that it > stores the labels I create for Likert-type questions rather than the > numerical scale values for each response. So the file created is not > friendly to a quantitative analysis. > > I don't know how well this system protects the identity of the respondents. > The data do get compiled in a excel-type file. > > UWF has adopted gmail as its institutional email. This gives everyone access > to many google aps, including google forms. However, the UWF gmail is in a > different domain than the general public version of gmail. Users from > outside the UWF system can experience a variety of difficulties accessing > these aps from their regular gmail accounts (or other accounts). You > probably would not encounter this difficulty if you used google forms from a > general gmail account. But you might encounter incompatibilities with users > with academic institutional gmail accounts. For example, I've discovered > that a commercial site that uses gmail and offers to post a webinar to my > gmail calendar is unable to do so. General gmail doesn't recognize my email > account as a gmail account (it retains the UWF identity). > > Claudia > _____________________________________________ > > Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. > Director > Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment > Associate Professor > NSF ADVANCE Scholar > School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences > University of West Florida > 11000 University Parkway > Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 > > Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 > > [email protected] > > CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ > Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=17180 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-17180-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17187 or send a blank email to leave-17187-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
