Randomising the order in which questions and pages appear in a survey is a technique used to avoid 'order effect’. This is a type of response bias where answers given to earlier questions could influence the way people answer later questions.
Randomising Page Order
To randomise page order:
- Open My Surveys
- Hover over the survey and click the Settings icon next to Preview
- On the left-hand Survey Settings menu, select Page Randomisation
- Under Page Randomisation, select No randomisation, Randomise pages or Flip pages
- Under Randomisation Settings, choose whether to randomise all pages or selected pages. If you choose Randomise Selected Pages, check the pages you wish to randomise.
- Click Save Changes.