onq, a survey authoring tool
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OnQ, a Survey Authoring Tool. Survey 2000. Developed at Northwestern University Hosted on National Geographic Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) Goal: How is a person shaped by his/her environment?. Survey 2001. Developed at Clemson University - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
OnQ,a Survey Authoring Tool
Survey 2000
Developed at Northwestern University
Hosted on National Geographic
Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF)
Goal: How is a person shaped by his/her environment?
Survey 2001
Developed at Clemson UniversityHosted on National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/survey2001/servlet/Page1
Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF)
Goal: How does the Internet impact our society?
3 initial groups of questions: Demography Internet Environment
Survey 2001: Problems
2196 questions / around 1500 answers
Manual data entry
Error-prone
Difficult to proofread and edit
OnQ: An Authoring Tool
GUI based
Use of database
Easy creation of skip patterns
Multimedia components
Surveys on the Web
Widespread use of the Internet
Number of Internet users: May 2002: 580,780,000 (NUA.com) May 2002: 389,570,230 (Nielson/Net Ratings)
June 2002: 391,042,644 (Nielson/Net Ratings) September 2002: 605,600,000 (NUA.com)
Other Survey Authoring Tools
Web Surveyor
WWW Survey Assistant
Hosted Survey
Survey Said for the Web
Sawtooth’s Sensus Web
OnQ: Architecture
Java programming language, version 1.4.0
MySQL database, version 3.23.40
MySQL Connector J, (formerly MM.Mysql)
Apache web server, version 1.3.40
Tomcat servlet engine, version 3.2.3
OnQ: An Authoring Tool
Question Editor (Cathy Hochrine) Sequence Developer (Laura Brand) Formatting (Meg Staton) Presentation (other)
4 modules:
Design of OnQ:
Database Tables for OnQ
Database Tables For the Question Editor Module of OnQ
OnQ: Question Editor Module
Question Composition Questions -
with a prefix, root, suffix
Languages Categories Keyword
association
OnQ: Question Editor Module
Answer Composition Types of answer
options: radio buttons, check boxes, drop-down lists, text area, text field
Choice for the number of answers, or the dimensions
OnQ: Sequence Developer Module
Question Blocks and Transitions Create, edit, and view
question blocks and transitions
Boolean evaluator for skip patterns
Randomization of questions within a question block
OnQ: Formatting Module
Format Individual Questions Survey author can
design way in which questions will be presented
Can add images, sound, video
Can choose placement of images
OnQ: Formatting Module
Format Question Blocks Each question block
is presented on a page
Author can define “page ends” within a question block
OnQ: Presentation Module
Uses Tomcat servlet engine to display (serve) pages to the clients
Also, serves pages to the survey author during development These pages look exactly as they will look
when the survey is deployed Author can modify the formatting during
development
Results
GUI
Arbitrarily complex boolean expressions
Multimedia components
Multi-language; Categories; keyword association
Presentation
Multiple-platform implementation
Improvements to OnQ
Fine-tune OnQ
Accessing other databases
Make it Web-based
Other checks
Pop-up search box
Current Use of OnQ
Diversity 2002United Way of Greenville http://johnryan.clemson.edu/UnitedWay/servlet/Page1
Marketing Department at Clemson University
Engineering Department at Clemson
Future Use of OnQ
Survey 2003 Goal: How do encounters with information on
the Internet change peoples’ perceptions of environmental hazards?
OnX – Online eXercises/eXamination A learning and assessment authoring tool
Acknowledgements
Dr. Roy PargasDr. James WitteDr. Art PellerinDr. Sandra HedetniemiOnQ development team: Kowshik Jaganathan Laura Brand Meg Staton
Thank You