online surveys :: school surveys

FabResearch Online offers online surveys tailored to your needs and managed for your peace of mind.

With us on board, you get help with:

• getting your questions right
• designing your survey's look & feel
• managing your recipient list
• reporting & analysing your results
• making sound decisions based on those results
• support throughout the project

FabResearch Online is a member of QuatroSystem, set up to provide Procurement and IT services to both the commercial and public sector. QS is part of buying solutions

If your targets can be reached online, then online surveys offer the most effective and best value method for the collection of data

• People often feel more comfortable expressing their views on-line than by conventional pen and paper.
• Our on-line surveys are designed to be attractive and easy to use.
• Data collection is automatic and without the inherent errors and time delay connected with the data entry process of paper surveys.
• An online approach will be financially much more cost effective over time.
• An online approach saves paper and associated printing and postage costs.
• Editing the survey over time is possible and additional questions or complete surveys can be added to the existing structure.
• The survey is delivered through a normal browser, so no extra software is required to be loaded on your PCs - it just needs an internet connection.
• Survey results are delivered via a secured website, so as well as allowing access to results using our Lodeseeker™ technology, it is possible to build up links to other reports and information relevant to the project if and when required.

As with other surveys, we have different methods of getting answers to our questions, including radio buttons, check boxes and free text input. However, our main method of collecting answers is based on a sliding 1000 point scale (0-100 with 1 decimal place) superimposed onto a categorical scale:

This replaces the normal array of radio buttons that you see on most surveys.

The advantage of this is that the respondents can choose where they want to be on the scale - they are not restricted to a choice between "very involved" and "quite involved" - they can choose to place their answer between the 2 - so they can say they are "involved".

The results are numbers - so, for example, "involved" might be recorded as 87.9 or it might be 82.3. This gives us the possibility to present the results as both a categorical scale (e.g. 87.9 would score in the "very involved" category, 82.3 would score in the "quite involved" category) or as a number - which means we can calculate averages as well as being able to do lots more statistical analyses.

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