Randomizing 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.
Randomizing Page Order
To randomize 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 Randomization
- Under Page Randomization, select No randomization, Randomize pages or Flip pages
- Under Randomization Settings, choose whether to randomize all pages or selected pages. If you choose Randomize Selected Pages, check the pages you wish to randomize.
- Click Save Changes.