Faculty Professional Development: Conducting, Managing, & Analyzing
This guide provides information on free or low-cost tools available to faculty across the world.
Last Updated: Sep 11, 2024 2:20 PM
Conducting
- Google FormsWith a Google email address you have access to so much, including the very powerful Google Forms. You can create a survey and put it into a Google spreadsheet that can be transferred into Excel or SPSS.
- Survey MonkeyThis free website allows you to create robust, anonymous surveys in a host of different styles. From Likert scales to open ended text boxes.
- Check the validity of your statisticsstatcheck is a program that checks for errors in statistical reporting in APA-formatted documents. It was originally written in the R programming language. statcheck/web is a web-based implementation of statcheck. Using statcheck/web, you can check any PDF for statistical errors without installing the R programming language on your computer.
**They do NOT keep a copy of your article.
Managing & Analyzing
- JASPProvides a user-friendly interface to many of the commonly-used statistical analyses -- descriptive statistics, plots, t-tests, Levene’s Test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, contingency tables, Pearson and Spearman correlation, Kendall’s Tau-B, and linear regression. For many of these analyses, the JASP also provides the closest corresponding Bayesian equivalent, implemented in a way that will be understandable to people not familiar with Bayesian concepts and terminology. Windows only.
- PSPPLooks and feels like SPSS and even reads SPSS files but it's free!
- jamovimodules on meta-analysis, mixed linear effects models, general linear models, & robust statistics
- Statistics Open For All (SOFA)SOFA is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. It is free, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output.
SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share. And SOFA will help you learn as you go.
Conducting, Managing, & Analyzing
- Open Data KitThis is the most robust data gathering toolkit out of the three highlighted. It allows you to create forms, gather data using low end devices like tablets and smartphones, analyze and manage the results using statistical and spreadsheet formats.
- Review of Open Data KitThis article reviews the Open Data Kit and provides a case study from Mali.
- KoBo ToolboxThis free toolbox allows you to create and reuse forms, collect data using a smartphone, analyze and manage data in csv or xls formats
- OnaSimilar to KoBo Toolbox
- Mobile Data Collecting ReviewThis website reviews some of the top mobile data collecting products out there that are free.