back to the Publication Alerts menuAmes, S. L., P. E. Gallaher, P. Sun, S. Pearce, J. B. Zogg, B. R. Houska, B. C. Leigh, and A. W. Stacy. "A Web-Based Program for Coding Open-Ended Response Protocols." Behavior Research Methods 37, no. 3 (2005): 470-479.
Ames et al. introduce a web-based program they have created for coding open-ended responses. To demonstrate the functionality and efficacy of the program, they present data from two studies. They also invite researchers to explore the program online and then contact the first author for permission to use the program.
What follows are excerpts from the article in which you can find a web address and other relevant details:
"The coding program is housed on a Linux server and is implemented with PHP and MySQL. It is optimized for use with the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and may be accessed at http://ipr1.hsc.usc.edu/codedemo/. The program is password protected, and visitors may log on using "admin" as both the username and password to test the application."
"The program includes functions to (1) define and set up the data structure on the server, (2) upload the to-be-coded dataset, (3) define the coding scheme, (4) define information about the coders and set up banks for each coder, (5) conduct the actual coding, (6) resolve coding discrepancies, and (7) generate and export the final dataset. Supervisors may access all of the functions, but coders have access to only the coding function."