{"id":706,"date":"2015-08-04T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T17:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tudsc\/?p=706"},"modified":"2019-08-30T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:15:16","slug":"ugfs1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tudsc\/2015\/08\/04\/ugfs1\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Google Forms to make surveys for your experiment: An intro"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Hocheol Yang<\/p>\n

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T<\/span><\/span>his is Hocheol Yang. As a doctoral student and lab manager of M.I.N.D. Lab in School of Media and Communication at Temple University, I have been studying how we can explore virtual reality with Oculus Rift at Temple’s Digital Scholarship Center (DSC). I\u00a0will share\u00a0a part of research\u00a0tools that I use.<\/p>\n

Using pens and pencils for taking users\u2019 responses is a historical and cost-efficient method that we all know even in the computerized 21st century. Still, there are many stacks of paper surveys on banks, restaurants, and markets\u2019 desks. Although I do like the feeling of handwriting, such as frictions between pencils and papers, I\u2019ve witnessed (sometimes it was me who did) several coding mistakes and organization issues of this traditional method. It looks like digital methods can give us promises to solve these issues, but the online survey tools are not an error free method. Although online survey tools are not error free, it can reduce a lot of time, errors, and trees as we already know.<\/p>\n

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One of the biggest considerations for\u00a0online surveys is the price. It is somewhat ironic, because even if\u00a0you don’t need materials in hands, you need to spend a lot for paying online tools’ licencing fees.\u00a0If you are likely to\u00a0have a legitimate license for\u00a0using Qualtrics or SurveyMonkey for your lifetime then you might be less interested in this post. Usually, maintaining licenses of these services for your entire research life is a quite uncommon benefit, especially for students. Even if you have a good survey database on those services,\u00a0they are\u00a0useless \"01\"when you lose your license in any reason. Therefore, we still need free and reliable solutions to maintain your survey database so that it is readily available.<\/p>\n

I hate to say this, but Google Forms is one of the best free solutions that you can have. The first key feature that we might need for our experiment is the ability of loading questions, videos, and images which are you can do and learn easily without instructions. For the second feature, we need to figure out some tweaks because\u00a0all free solutions have some limitations.<\/p>\n

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I <\/span>Building survey templates<\/span><\/p>\n

The second feature is the survey database. Even for the expensive online survey tools, having easily usable survey databases is somehow\u00a0not easy. For example, in order to test relationships between usability and attitudes, it would be fantastic if you just copy and paste usability and attitudes measures from the database you have used before. Copying the whole question structures and combining two different question sets is the feature that we all want, and it seems not that demanding feature; however,\u00a0somehow it is not easily done by most of the survey services, which is totally different with\u00a0editing surveys on word documents.<\/p>\n

In sum, the main procedures can be summarized as the below steps.<\/p>\n

1. Duplicating survey files that you\u00a0already have on Google Drive’s Forms documents<\/p>\n

2. Combining these files into a single survey.<\/p>\n

The next post will provide a guide for\u00a0these two steps.<\/p>\n

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