Pilot Survey

Due: Oct 15 by 11:59pm

Weight: This assignment is worth 5% of your final grade.

Assessment: Your submission will be assessed using the rubric at the bottom of this page.

As a team, create a pilot survey - an initial draft of your final survey for preliminary testing. Your fellow classmates will all take your survey and provide feedback. The course instructor will also review and grade your survey and will provide written feedback. Follow the instructions below to prepare your pilot survey.

1. Get Organized

Download and unzip the demo choice-based conjoint survey for your pilot survey. The folder contains the following files:

  • survey.Rproj: An R Project file for staying organized.
  • make-choice-questions.R: The code to generate the choice_questions.csv file (your survey design file…use the code you wrote in class for this).
  • choice_questions.csv: The survey choice question design file.
  • survey.qmd: The code for creating your survey content, which should include a welcome page, content form, and eligibility questions for screening our ineligible respondents. It should also include your education content and randomized conjoint choice questions, then any other questions you wish to ask your survey respondents (e.g. demographics).
  • app.R: The file to run the Shiny app.
  • images: A folder of images (if you’re using any in your survey).

2. Write your survey content

The files included in the zip file are just example content based on the blog post on building conjoint surveys in surveydown. This is just placeholder content - you need to replace it with your survey content.

Follow these guidelines in inserting your content:

  • You may directly copy and paste any content you wish from your Survey Plan assignment.
  • In your survey.qmd file, you should have your randomized sets of choice questions working using your choice_questions.csv design file.
  • Setup a database connection on Supabase and make sure your survey data is being stored properly in the database.

Be sure to render your survey.qmd file often to an html file so you can preview that everything is displaying as expected, then also run the app.R file to preview your choice questions locally as a Shiny app.

3. Upload your survey to shinyapps.io

Only one person from your team should create an account for hosting your survey on shinyapps.io. Follow the documentation on deploying the app.

4. Attribution

Include a short description of the specific contributions of each team member for this report. If all members contributed equally, you can just put the single sentence “All members contributed equally”.

Team members who do not make meaningful contributions to their projects will not receive the same grade as that of their team mates. If you are having any issues or disputes among team members, please contact Professor Helveston ASAP so we can find a resolution.

5. Submit

Create a zip file of all the files in your R project folder for this assignment and submit it on the corresponding assignment submission on Blackboard. Only one person from your team should submit the report.

Grading Rubric

35 Total Points

Category Excellent Good Needs work
Organization & Formatting 5
All formatting guidelines are followed.		 4
Most formatting guidelines are followed; only one or two components from the template are missing.		 3
Most formatting guidelines are followed; several components from the template are missing or incomplete.
Survey Content 10 / 9
All required content is present in the survey.qmd file with proper logic in the app.R file		 8 / 7 / 6
All required content is present in the survey.qmd file with proper logic in the app.R file, though it may need one or two small fixes to work properly.		 5 / 4 / 3
Required content is incomplete and / or missing, and there are multiple fixes required before the app runs.
Conjoint Questions 10 / 9
Randomized conjoint questions render on live survey without error.		 8 / 7 / 6
Randomized conjoint questions render on live survey with only one or two errors (e.g. image load fail).		 5 / 4 / 3
Randomized conjoint questions have major issues rendering on the live survey. Page load fails or content is displayed in an unintelligle manner.
surveydown 10 / 9
Entire survey renders on live survey without errors, user can get to end and questions are clear and understandable.		 8 / 7 / 6
The survey contains one or two errors when rendering on shinyapps.io, but the user can still get to the end of the survey.		 5 / 4 / 3
An error page displays preventing continuation in the survey, or multiple major errors exist in the survey making it difficult to understand the questions.