About Surveys

While FOL does not require surveys or questionnaires, often schools and districts want to gather responses from stakeholders. A number of free or relatively low-cost solutions are available to both help you build appropriately valid and reliable questions but also to tabulate and present results.

National Study of School Evaluation (NSSE) provides educational leaders with state-of-the-art resources, tools, and support services to enhance and promote student growth and school improvement through accreditation. Both paper and web-based surveys are available for a fee. This is a non-profit educational research and development organization founded in 1933 by the six regional school accreditation commissions in the United States.

Survey Monkey says it's single purpose is "to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily." They'll do a 10 question with no more than 100 responses for free.

Matt's Script Archive has free CGI scripts that will enable you to do surveys through your own webpage.

EForm Easy to use, and their Tech Support is good. Download a trial version. The program will allow you to create the form, and then e-mail it to selected recipients or put the form on a web page or both. The responses come by e-mail to an account that should be used for survey results only (although you can manage multiple surveys through one address). Responses are compiled in an Access database. The program will generate some graphs and summaries, or you can do your own by exporting the data to Excel (or whatever).

Zoomerang has both a free and a cost (Pro) version for surveys.

Rubrics and OnLine Surveys is an eclectic list developed by Marsha L. Burmeister, EdD, Director of Instructional Technology for the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University.

Profiler is an Internet site which can be used to collect data for a multitude of purposes.

Infopoll offers online survey software and services.

SurveySolutions, winner of PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award, provides everything you need to implement a successful Internet survey at relatively low cost (see their educational discounts). Perseus is giving away 100,000 free copies of SurveySolutions for the Web for use in classrooms grade twelve and under. Download a trial version.

QuestionPro offers web based software for creating and distributing surveys. It consists of an intuitive wizard interface for creating survey questions, tools for distributing your survey via email or your website, and tools for analyzing and viewing your results. You simply build your survey and email it to a list of potential respondents. QuestionPro will take care collecting and recording the responses. Results are available in real time.

School Perceptions was founded to help educational leaders gather and analyze the data necessary to plan and improve. Many student, staff, parent/community, and program/services surveys are available at a cost.

Wayne K. Hoy of the Ohio State University College of Education has posted several research instruments to his website. These are free to download and use. Each has been measured for reliability with results being quite high. Thanks, Vladi, for the link.

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