Web-based classroom research

Web-based classroom research workshop Sponsored by the SDSU Center for Teaching and Learning and the College of Education
Important: If you collect data for any purpose other than course improvement (that is, if you intend to publish or present your findings), you must seek approval in advance from the SDSU Graduate and Research Affairs Committee on Protection of Human Subjects.
Surveys
Zoomerang	Zoomerang allows professors and students to easily conduct Web surveys and gather and organize the data online or in an Excel spreadsheet. With a subscription, Zoomerang will even provide the subjects for your survey or experiment.
HostedSurvey	HostedSurvey is a Web-based application for creating surveys and feedback questionnaires. All aspects of the survey development, administration and reporting are done online.
Response-O-Matic	Response-O-Matic is a Web site that lets you create forms, then emails you the information your Website visitor entered in the form. It also displays a Thank You page for your visitor that contains the contents of the completed form, so the visitor can review what was entered. Here's an example of the results.
MailForm	Developed and hosted here at San Diego State University, MailForm is a simple tool that collects data from Web forms and forwards them to one or more e-mail addresses.MailForm let's survey authors label and organize the data before it arrives in your email box, and lets you designate an appropriate Thank You page. Here's an example of the results.
AppForce.net	AppForce.net allows for unlimited number of surveys and number of respondents, for a flat monthly fee.
Experiments
Purdue University's CogLab	An online laboratory for use with cognitive psychology courses. The labs cover many areas of cognitive psychology including visual attention, perception, neurocognition, memory, language, imagery, and probability.
Psych Experiments Home Page	A collection of resources for online psychology experiments.
Examples
Text Design	What type fonts and other type characteristics do you -- and others -- find easiest to read? Find out by participating in this online experiment (about 5 minutes).
Multimedia Interaction	Do we learn better when animation is accompanied by narration or by text? Does interaction with multimedia objects help us learn? These and other questions illuminated in this online research project (about 12 minutes): Just browsing the experiment? Please use this demo version. Willing to actually participate in the experiment? Please use this live version.
Marcie's students' surveys	Marcie's students use a variety of these tools to create and distribute survveys as part of her Educational Evaluation course. Peruse some of their instruments.
Zoomerang and Response-O-Matic examples, with data	Here are some examples of surveys used in graduate classes... EDTEC 470: Beginning of Semester Survey (Zoomerang) Your evaluator: An interim assessment (Zoomerang) Your evaluator: An interim assessment (Response-O-Matic) ...and the data collected from the first of them: EDTEC 470: Beginning of Semester Survey (Excel data)
Miscellaneous
AtomicLearning	Need to learn FileMaker? Excel? Dreamweaver? Other software? Atomic learning features animated video tutorials and Q&A on how do the stuff you want to do.