[Using Sakai] Advanced survey tool

[Adam Marshall]

this would be a great addition to the Evaluations tool. People often ask to be able to export survey results with numeric values instead of textual selections

adam
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Dr AC Marshall (WebLearn Service Manager)
OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford. OX2 6NN

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From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Grossman,John E [john.grossman at mdanderson.org]
Sent: 29 November 2011 18:00
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Using Sakai] Advanced survey tool

Question: Does anyone have experience using a survey or assessment tool with Sakai that allows for survey questions to be associated with numeric codes and for database storage of the codes as part of the response data?

Background: Our Behavioral Sciences department is interested in delivering educational content via Sakai with surveys that would measure behavioral changes in the learners. They normally code survey responses using numeric values to simplify statistical analysis. For example, if a multiple choice question has 4 responses, they may prefer to analyze the data using coded values 1, 2, 3, and 4 rather than the textual content of the response.

We realize we could map responses to codes using XSLT, database formulas or Excel formulas, but ideally the survey tool itself would allow for definition of the codes at the time of survey creation and storage of the codes in the results database. This would avoid the need to write custom mapping routines for each survey/evaluation.

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John Grossman
Director, Academic Technology Services
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
713-745-0305