PsyToolkit A Novel Web-Based Method for Running Online Questionnaires and Reaction-Time Experiments

This article reviews PsyToolkit, a free web-based service designed for setting up, running, and analyzing online questionnaires and reaction-time (RT) experiments. It comes with extensive documentation, videos, lessons, and libraries of free-to-use psychological scales and RT experiments. It provide...

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Published inTeaching of psychology Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 24 - 31
Main Author Stoet, Gijsbert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2017
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Experiments
Pedagogy
Psychology
Questionnaires
Reaction Time
Response time
Web services
personality psychology
online data collection
cognitive psychology
student research
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Summary:This article reviews PsyToolkit, a free web-based service designed for setting up, running, and analyzing online questionnaires and reaction-time (RT) experiments. It comes with extensive documentation, videos, lessons, and libraries of free-to-use psychological scales and RT experiments. It provides an elaborate interactive environment to use (or modify) the existing questionnaires and experiments from the PsyToolkit library or to design new studies. Once users have set up their study, they can recruit participants for online participation, and data can be downloaded in spreadsheet format after collection. This article provides examples of how questionnaires and RT experiments can be set up using the website. The PsyToolkit links to online questionnaires and experiments, and these links can easily be embedded in social media networks for participant recruitment, including Amazon's Mechanical Turk. PsyToolkit’s exhaustive documentation enables students to work independently. This article finishes with pedagogical considerations.
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ISSN:0098-6283
1532-2802
1532-8023
DOI:10.1177/0098628316677643