Like others I have used Google forms for simply data collection related to class projects/experiments or other assessment projects. I did discover a very useful artifact for real-time data presentation that I will use again in class. As has been noted, Google forms write the data to a Google spreadsheet. If you create a chart/graph of the data area in the Google spreadsheet associated with the form you can show the chart during class and the students can watch the results change as the data is entered in near real time (you will have to select the chart to have it update with the new data). I displayed both counts, sums and averages this way to show results of in-class demonstrations to the students as they entered the data.
Doug Doug Peterson, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology The University of South Dakota Vermillion SD 57069 605.677.5223 ________________________________________ From: Michael Palij [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 7:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: Re: [tips] google forms Many Thanks to both Michael B and Claudia on how Google forms can be used. If others have used Google forms, I'd encourage them to post how they used it. The can inspire new ways of thinking about how to get certain tasks done. And to Claudia: NYU recently went from its old mail system to Gmail which has taken a bit of adjustment (to make matters worse, I've moved to a new PC which forced me to decide whether to use a mail client or the Gmail interface for correspondence). Working out how "institutional" Gmail interacts with "personal" Gmail can be a puzzling and frustrating experience. One solution that is only somewhat satisfactory is to create a parallel account to which the institutional account forwards all of its email. This serves as a "back-up" if one is no longer able to access the institutional account and serves as an "alternate institutional account" that one can keep separate from personal accounts. Yeah, I know, another email account to keep track of but I imagine that it would be lightly used and would be better situations for info the webinar situation you mention below -- again, this might preferable then having it sent to a personal account. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] -------------- Original Message ----------- On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:57:07 -0700, Michael Britt wrote: 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/ 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). --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc1c8&n=T&l=tips&o=17189 or send a blank email to leave-17189-12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc...@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=17201 or send a blank email to leave-17201-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
