Example

This page contains links to a fully operational example of an OSuCre experiment.

A.    The following link you will take you to the experiment: http://www.osucre.be/FMexample/experiment

B.    The accumulated data collected with this experiment can be downloaded. However, these data are
       password protected. Use "FMexample" and "FMpass" as username and password respectively.
       http://www.osucre.be/FMexample/experiment/fetch.html

C.    The OSuCre syntax files for this project are also available. This sample project has one between subjects factor,
       with two levels. Each level requires a syntax file. The two syntax files can be downloaded:
       FMexample1.csv and FMexample2.csv (please choose "save target as" and open in Excel or another spreadsheet).

D.    The SPSS syntax that is generated by OSuCre can be downloaded here: syntax.sps

E.    You can use this tool to prepare the data for analysis with Calstat (Weiss, 2005): calstatconverter.zip

Step-by-step procedure to create the experiment:

1)     Run OSuCre on a Windows PC and create a new between subjects experiment (name= FMexample).
        Make sure you enter “2” for the number of between subjects conditions.

2)     Two OSuCre syntax files (FMexample1.csv and FMexample2.csv) are created and open in your spreadsheet
        program (usually Excel). Edit the two syntax files to obtain the files as can be downloaded above

3)     Convert your between subjects experiment with OSuCre (File > 2b Convert between subjects experiment),
        to obtain a set of files and folders that hold your new Web Survey Experiment (these files can be found
        in the OSuCre folder of your “My documents” directory)

4)     Now publish the entire set of files and folders on your Web server, using FTP or other. The built-in upload
        feature cannot handle multiple folders and can therefore not be used for this. Filezilla was employed to upload
        the files to the server

5)     The server on which the files are hosted holds a database. The procedure described here (step 3) was followed
        to create a usable table on the current database server

6)     The webpages that hold the experiment can be personalized with a html-php editor of choice. However, only
        deliberate changes should be made to the code that manages the data. Any changed survey files need to
        be uploaded to the server

References:

Weiss, D. J. (2005). Analysis of Variance and Functional Measurement: a Practical Guide. Oxford: University Press.