[Using Sakai] Advanced survey tool

[Daniel Merino]

I'm not sure if this could be useful for you, but some time ago I did a 
bunch of changes in the Evalsys pdf reports and one of them was parsing 
the questions, so a weighted mean is included in questions with only 
numerical answers, and another weighted mean is calculated for blocks 
with only-numerical questions, when all of them share the same scale.

My changes are documented at: 
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1100

Best regards.

Adam Marshall escribió:
> 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
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> adam
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> Subject: [Using Sakai] Advanced survey tool
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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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