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If you are here to evaluate this capability for your future use, please click the "Login" button to the left and enter your this UserName: demo and this Password: sample. Then follow directions.

For technical support, please e-mail Sean.Brady@PrismDecision.com or call 607-771-5411.

Web Surveys

Welcome to Prism's survey area. We provide secure, password-protected online survey capability from this Web site. Or we can install our survey software on a client's Web site.

Survey capabilities

Skip all the paper. Eliminate all the data entry. Throw away the spreadsheet. Let Prism's Web survey software collect and analyze all the data and report the results for you.

Prism's Web survey and analytic capabilities are robust. Our Web survey software allows you to design any survey imaginable. It accommodates any fixed choice or open-ended response.

Further, our analytic capabilities will accelerate you toward decision-making. View bar graphs showing actual individual or group survey responses as the survey is administered or when it is complete. Or utilize the full suite of analysis and reporting tools.

Gap analysis

The gap analysis is common to many planning methodologies. Planners often want to identify the gap between a strategy's Importance and its Current Performance or between an option's Effectiveness and its Feasibility. Our software will automatically report these and any similar gaps between scale items.

For example, the graph below shows the "Opportunity Gaps" for a hypothetical group of math teachers who are comparing the Importance of a set of teaching practices with the Frequency with which they implement them.

Opportunity Gap = Importance - Frequency

Graph Interpretation: A positive bar indicates that a teaching practice's average Importance score was larger than its average Frequency score. Therefore, the larger the positive bar, the more the opportunity to improve teacher effectiveness. That is, the larger the bar, the more the opportunity to match the frequency of use with an effective practice's perceived importance.

So, in the graph below, effective practice #12-"Students use technical literacy skills as they view, read, write, listen, and speak in math"-has the largest opportunity gap. By increasing its frequency of use, these math teachers should improve.

The software automatically displays the underlying data table and the survey items ordered by declining size of "Opportunity Gap".

Top Opportunity Gaps In Hypothetical Survey of Effective Teaching Practices

Q 12. Students use technical literacy skills as they view, read, write, listen, and speak in math
Q 11. Students represent their math thinking using objects, pictures, symbols, and words
Q 15. Give opportunities for student self-reflection and goal setting
Q 4. Link prior learning with daily lessons
Q 1. Help students feel excited about learning math
Q 3. Students regularly have opportunities to share their thinking, find solutions, explain concepts, compare and contrast ideas, and justify their reasoning

Disaggregation

Prism's software allows for the disaggregation of the data by demographic subgroup. It can also automatically analyze and report gaps between subgroups. Such analysis is necessary for stakeholder groups to understand differences and then to build strong consensus. The graphs below show the differences in average importance ratings of a hypothetical group of administrators and teachers.

If you are interested in more information on how Prism's Web survey capability may support your business needs, please contact Sean.Brady@PrismDecision.com.