educara survey 2.0 software for collecting cognitive data on the web h. russell bernard university...
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Educara SURVEY 2.0Software for Collecting
Cognitive Data On The Web
H. Russell Bernard University of Florida
Clarence C. Gravlee Florida State University
Thanks to Chad Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn and Jessica Pisano for assistance on this project
Cognitive Anthropology On the Web
H. Russell Bernard, Stephen Borgatti, and Gery Ryan, working with Educara Software Corporation (Columbia, Missouri)
Support for the prototype from Ford Motor Company in the late 1990s
Support for release version under a grant to the University of Florida from the National Science Foundation
Educara SURVEY 2.0 – Key Features
Web-based editor for building and editing questionnaires
Data types for cognitive anthropology Free lists, pile sorts, frame substitution,
triad tests, and paired comparisons Standard survey formats - radio button,
open-ended text
Educara SURVEY 2.0 – Key Features
Data exported in tab-delimited, Excel, or XML format
Current version supports English and Spanish; next release will support all alphabetic languages
Packaged with multiple background design templates and completely customizable with HTML
Availability
Tools are owned and distributed by Educara Software Corporation
Open code
Download is free at http://www.educara.com
Improvements must be made available to everyone
Installation Options Can be configured on your own server
Written in PHP Linux or Windows servers using the
Apache web server and either mySQL or PostgreSQL
Or, Educara will host the tools
Contact Educara for price of hosting
After login, the user sees the editor for building new surveys and editing existing ones.
The following slides show an example for building a pile sort task.
The following slides show the editor for building a triad test, including selecting a design.
Here, on the next slide, the selection is for a lambda-2 balanced incomplete block design.
To prevent order effects, triad tests are randomized in presentation to the respondent.
The data are unrandomized during export.
The next slide shows the Excel sheet export of the triad test data.
The next slide shows a free-list task. Brewer found that systematic prompting
increases responses to a free-list task. The following slide shows an example of
the prompting tool.
Brewer, Devon D., Sharon B. Garrett, and Giovanni Rinaldi 2002. Free-Listed Items are Effective Cues for Eliciting Additional Items in Semantic Domains. Applied Cognitive Psychology 16:343–358.