Automating Questionnaire Design And Construction1
Stephen JenkinsMercator Computer Systems UK and University of the West of England, Bristol andTony SolomonidesUniversity of the West of England, Bristol
When devising survey questionnaires it is often useful to reuse questions and other questionnaire objects from previous, similar surveys. The notion of reuse leads us to consider the creation of searchable libraries of standard questions. However, a major problem is how to represent routing and specialisation information in a question outside the scope of the original questionnaire. This paper describes a set of representations and methods...