Ranking Feature

Ranking

Ranking is the term used for a format that allows a respondent to not only choose from a selection but to choose in a particular order such as ‘most important first’. This tutorial will show how to implement ranking into a survey using the Survey Galaxy website.

Add an item to the survey using the Text entry field grid format.

Enter the text for the question (blue), list the response options (yellow) and the column heading title for the ranking column (pink) and then click on the Column text attributes button (red).

Use the drop down button to select from a number of different available attributes. Each attribute is described at the bottom of the display window. For the purpose of this tutorial the ranked ascending, scoring reverse will be used.

ranked ascending, scoring reverse means that when the respondent chooses by clicking on the selection their selection will be numbered sequentially i.e. 1,2,3 etc. but the results will be scored 3,2,1 so that the most popular choice receives the highest score. When the results are analyzed this will ensure that the more popular the choice the higher the value. By choosing other ranking options you will be able to change the behavior of the ranking.

Having selected the type of ranking you may then optionally limit the number of selections you will accept, in the following example it has been limited to 3, for no limit leave this field blank.

Press the Apply button to accept the attributes values and then save the line item.

Use the Preview button to then preview and test the line item. The following example shows how the ranking will appear to respondents. The three valid slections have been highlighted in green and it shows the message that will be displayed if a fourth choice is attempted by the respondent.

Note that as part of the ranking two buttons are included in the column heading, one to step back one selection at a time, the other to reset all selections.