Skip patterns?

[meredith conover williams]

Hi everybody!

Is there a way to do skip patterns in a survey?

Two scenarios:

In one, If a respondent answers "yes" to question 5, it skips them to
question 8 (as 6 and 7 do not pertain to them).

In the other, they choose an option at the beginning of the survey,
and it gives them a separate list of questions, based on that answer.
For example, the respondent would choose their year in school. If
they choose "freshman" it gives them one list of questions. If they
choose "senior" it gives them a different list of questions.

Are either/both of these possible in Skylight?

[Nils Peterson]

This function is available in Skylight.

The second version can be approximated by "survey to make a survey"
http://wsuctlt.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/survey-to-make-a-survey/ but
not on the fly. The respondent would complete one survey and then
later be asked to complete a second one.

If you know metadata about respondents, eg, year in school, major,
etc, then you might consider a matrix survey. Start by creating
multiple respondent pools, one for each group. Author questions in
question groups with the different groups of questions keyed to
different respondent pools. All groups can get some common questions,
see this example http://skylightkb.wsu.edu/getting_started/what-is-a-matrix-survey

For completeness, there is a third name for this kind of survey,
"conditional." Conditional designs place some logic on each question
and can use data the respondent has answered and/or metadata available
to the survey engine to show/hide the question. These can (in
principle) be quite complex conditions, such as if
[respondent.gender=male] AND [respondent.age>25] THEN ...



On Nov 3, 1:16 pm, meredith conover williams

[gvolpe]

Hi, I'm wondering about the first scenario presented above.  Does Skylight allow for this "question skipping" type of behavior without using a second survey?  I would also like to have someone answer yes or no to question 1, and depending on the answer, go to the appropriate next question.

Any help or advice with this would be awesome.  Thanks so much!

[Joshua Yeidel]

Skip patterns such as you describe are not currently supported by Skylight.  Question groups can be presented to respondents or omitted based only on static metadata associated with the respondent's respondent pool.

-- Joshua

[gvolpe]

Thank you!