Survey & Experiment Platforms

Introduction

Apart from making sure that your survey is of good quality in terms of psychometric properties, it helps if your participants can fill in your survey on a user-friendly platform. There are many options in the selection below, from comprehensive but expensive packages, to more basic but free platforms. Some platforms require knowledge of coding, whereas others are more intuitive to use. It is worth taking some time to consider which is the best for your needs.

Google Forms
“Google Forms is a survey administration software included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google”

Psychtoolbox-3
“The Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 is a set of freely available functions for research-grade stimulus presentation and response collection for neuroscience and other application domains”

PsyToolkit
“PsyToolkit is a free-to-use toolkit for demonstrating, programming, and running cognitive-psychological experiments and surveys, including personality tests.”

Qualtrics
“Qualtrics is a powerful online survey tool and the world’s most trusted research software”. It is popular with academics and is provided free to researchers and students at some universities, but is expensive outside the university environment.

SmartSurvey
“SmartSurvey is a digital survey solution that helps anyone create surveys, build questionnaires and analyse the results.”

SurveyMonkey
“SurveyMonkey is a global leader in survey software”. There is a free trial version with limited features, but the full version requires a fee.