Web Survey Bibliography
It can be said that at one end of the design continuum of web surveys are form-based designs that present questionnaires as one long form in a scrollable window; at the other end are screen-by-screen questionnaires that present only a single item at a time. The automatic forwarding is a web survey function that leads a respondent immediately forward after answering. As a function it becomes close of the isolating procedure of single items. The automatic forwarding is rarely used but adopted in the web survey ZEF.
The ZEF shares the single questions into the separate files. The respondent is able to achieve the items of single file by clicking the file icon. After that the list of questions that the file include, become visible. The respondent is then able to perceive only the options for the one single question at the time, when the options for other questions in the file remain hidden. When answering, the automatic forwarding occurs as an immediate hiding of answer as soon as a radio button has been checked.
The procedure of automatic forwarding in ZEF leads to the lack of conventionally presented visual cues during answering process. It seems to removes the visual feedback and might be causes the loss of context. If a respondent makes a mistake - either because of misreading or because of problems with the mouse or the touch screen - it cannot be corrected. On the other hand, the benefits of individually presented questions on self- administrated questionnaires have been proved in many studies. The response times are longer for questions presented individually than for questions presented as a set. Answering the former takes more time, because the respondent must establish a cognitive orientation for each question separately. Clearly, the respondent must expend more cognitive effort to interpret individually presented questions. When trying to understand the possible consequences of automatic forwarding, the perspective of individually presented questions as well as the perspective of grouping questions should be taken account. Still, many questions remain open in automatic forwarding issue.
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Web survey bibliography - Finland (20)
- Feasibility of using a multilingual web survey in studying the health of ethnic minority youth.; 2016; Kinnunen, J. M.; Malin, M.; Raisamo, S. U.; Lindfors, P. L.; Pere, L. A.; Rimpelae, A. H.
- Online panels and validity; 2014; Groenlund, K., Strandberg, K.
- Does Gamification Work? - A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification ; 2014; Hamari, J., Koivisto, J., Sarsa, H.
- Comparison of Three Modes for a Crime Victimization Survey; 2013; Laaksonen, S., Heiskanen, M.
- Bringing usability to pretesting of Business Survey Web Forms in Statistics Finland; 2013; Rouhunkoski, J.
- The effect of language in answering qualitative questions in user experience evaluation web-surveys; 2013; Walsh, T., Nurkka, P., Petrie, H., Olson, J.
- The comparability of Don't Know answers between CATI and CAWI modes; 2013; Pohjanpaa, K., Jarvensivu, M.
- A mixed-mode survey tackling against an increasing rate of nonresponse; 2013; Jokinen, M.
- Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Surveys: Prevention, Diagnostics, and Adjustment 1; 2013; de Leeuw, E. D., Dillman, D. A., Schouten, B.
- Choosing a Data Collection Approach: Mixed Mode Design Experiences in Statistics Finland; 2012; Taskinen, P., Kiianmaa, N.
- The Usage of a Cloud Service as an Effective Way of Sharing Cognitive and Usability Test Information; 2012; Rouhunkoski, J., Godenhjelm, P.
- Automatic Forwarding on Web Surveys – Some Outlines and Remarks; 2012; Selkaelae, A.
- Open-ended questions in the context of temporary work research; 2011; Siponen, K.
- Testing a single mode vs a mixed mode design; 2011; Laaksonen, S.
- A mixed mode pilot on consumer barometer; 2011; Taskinen, P., Simpanen, M.
- Features of the Z-scoring method in graphical two-dimensional web surveys: the case of ZEF; 2011; Selkaelae, A., Ronkainen, S., Alasaarela, E.
- Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas of Archiving Qualitative Data; 2010; Kuula, A.
- Asking Factual Knowledge Questions: Reliability in Web-Based, Passive Sampling Surveys ; 2009; Elo, K.
- Analyses of Web Survey Data; 2007; Kuusela, V.
- Reducing Nonresponse by SMS Reminders in Mail Surveys; 2007; Virtanen, V., Sirkiä, T., Jokiranta, V. Sirkia, T.