What is AskMeItems

AskMeItems is a little questionnaire presenter and can be used for scientific studies. AskMeItems allows to specify a subject code and a selection of questionnaires to be presented.

Prerequisites

• You need to install the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17718

Instructions

Creating a questionnaire

• Add a new questionnaire by creating a .txt file and writing down all questions, answers and points in just one file.
• The file name should be the name of the questionnaire. This is important since the results are saved with the questionnaire as a prefix.
• If you want to present the answers horizontally, than type: "Questionnaire-Type: Likert" in the very first line of the .txt file. Otherwise the answers will be presented one below the other.

Adding an introduction

• Start with "Introduction: ..." and then type the introductory message.
• AskMeItem will show the Introduction on the first page of each questionnaire

Adding questions (or so called "items")

• Create questions by typing the questionnaire name and a number, combined with an "_", e.g.

     ABC_1: Hello, how are you?
     
     ABC_2: How do you do?
  

• You can create subscales X and Y of a questionnaire ABC by typing ABC-X_1, ABC-X_2, ABC-Y_1, ABC-Y_2.

• AskMeItems will calculate the mean and sum of each subscale separately and the mean and sum of the complete questionnaire.

• Mark "fill items" with an * . These items will be shown but they won't be recognized when calculating the results e.g.

     * ABC_2: Hello, how are you? 
       1) :) - 2   (will give 2 points)
       2) :( - 1   (will give 1 point)
  

• Create as many answers as you need by typing each in a new line.

• Give points by typing them behind the answers, e.g.

     ABC_2: Hello, how are you? 
       1) :) - 2   (will give 2 points)
       2) :( - 1   (will give 1 point)
  

• If you don't specify points, AskMeItems will take the number of the answers as the points, e.g.

     ABC_2: Hello, how are you? 
       1) :)       (will give 1 point)
       2) :(       (will give 2 points)
  

Using comments

• It is possible to use comments in the questionnaires. Just use a # sign at the line start. e.g.

     ABC_2: Hello, how are you? 
     # This line is a comment and will not be displayed.
       1) :)       (will give 1 point)
       2) :(       (will give 2 points)
  

Using linebreaks

• It is possible to use linebreaks in answer texts

     ABC_2: Hello, how are you?          
       1) good
       2) bad\nvery bad       (will introduce a linebreak)
  

Running a series of questionnaires

• AskMeItems stops whenever the last answer of the very last questionnaire is given.
• You can manually stop AskMe by pressing Alt+F4
• AskMeItem saves automatically 2 results files:
  • one containing only the given answers and corresponding points
  • and one containing additional information about the sum and mean of subscales and the whole quesionnaire.