Chapters in a book are self-contained entities which could stand alone, but are better suited to be part of a larger whole. The new revision to the Cvent online survey platform allows the researcher to group questions into a chapter. This new feature is well adapted for scoring sections within an assessment.
Prior to this release if you had a multi-section assessment and wanted to provide scores for each section you would have had to create several stand-alone surveys and link them together via the ‘Thank You’ page. Now, the survey author would implement this under the chapter menu under the actions drop-down menu. The sample below provides an example.
In addition to grouping like questions, the author can also implement pages within a chapter. This allows for question randomization on each page. When combined with category randomization within a question this feature goes a long way toward minimizing potential order bias. This feature can also be implemented on surveys that involve lengthy scales (e.g. a Likert scale with several items).
In order to take full advantage of the chapter function the author must plan his or her survey in advance and group like questions together. For example demographics, attitude measures, and usage behaviors.
The chapter function offers survey developers the ability to group like questions, randomize those questions and provide succint scoring for each chapter via the Thank You page or a certificate.