Thanks to everyone in advance for any assistance with this conundrum.
I recently completed the defense of my dissertation proposal and was asked by my committee to shift from an email-based survey to a web-based format. At first, this seemed straight-forward and a good way to collect and manage the data from my responses.
However, upon closer inspection, I am running into a challenge I had not encountered in my original design.
I plan on administering a 5-question survey to all business (and related) faculty in Ohio community colleges to measure the degree of curriculum internationalization in the courses they develop and/or instruct. The first two questions are simply requests for job titles and contact information (textbox entries). Question 3 asks each respondent to list every business-related course that they have taught at the institution in the past 5 years (again, a textbox seems logical here).
Question 4 then asks each respondent a series of four Likert-scale questions based on each course they identified in Question 3. While this seems simple enough (and probably would be easy for someone to complete in a simple Word document--as I had originally planned), I'm struggling to figure out how to incorporate this type of question on any of the major web-based survey websites.
Question 5 is similar to question 4 as it then asks the respondent to identify for how long each course has been utilized/deployed with the degree of internationalized curriculum identified in question 4.
My main question is how do I create a tool on any web-based survey platform that would allow respondents to volunteer course numbers/titles that would later have follow-up questions about each specific course? I've dabbled with Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, and Sogosurvey without much success as I keep running into this issue.
I had posited about using a comprehensive dropdown list of EVERY business-related course offered at EVERY institution to allow self-selection and logical page progression, but that doesn't seem to resolve the issue and just makes the survey look even more convoluted. The same would be said if I created a dropdown list on page 1 for the respondent to choose the specific institution, the list of courses on page 2, etc.
I am probably overthinking this entire process, but I can't seem to think of how to structure this survey using the web-based tools that are out there and wonder if simply asking respondents to just type out a word document with answers to the questions would be simpler and result in just as many responses.
I'm producing a survey at the moment in JavaScript, and it is fairly flexible for this, though it is less "packaged" than things like Qualtrics and Surveymonkey (though because JS is so popular ... the students at my local high school use it and have a JS club ... there is lots of help on the web). These later packages (at least the non-free version of SurveyMonkey, which versions have you used?) allow branching. Your question sounds software specific. My guess is if you posted it on a Qualtrics site you'd get rapid responses.
If your school has a Qualtrics license, that would be my recommendation. You can set up branching logic in other systems like Google Form or SurveyMonkey but they tend to be less robust. The free SurveyMonkey has an item limit and should not be used for any sensitive data. I haven’t reached a limit on Google Form yet, but they have limited item types compared to Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey. Qualtrics has many great resources for novice survey builders on their site and their customer service representatives are amazingly helpful as well. First thing would be to find out if your institution has a license. Even if its not campus-wide, ask your department IT specialist because sometimes schools will only purchase program- or department-wide licenses. Good luck!
Thanks to everyone! I managed a workaround by changing the approach and specific questions being asked. Branching would have meant exhaustingly long surveys for faculty with many different preparations to analyze. I looked into several of the options with Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, SurveyPlanet (and many others) and they do seem viable if there would not be such a workaround.
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