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Screening data in SPSS

NicolettaConColetta — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:38:42 GMT

Hey Dave! We have a Batch-folder consisting of 6 scripts. 4 of those are separate survey-screenings, and 2 are our tasks. Inquisit gives us 2 separate data-files for the tasks, but puts the data of the 4 survey-scripts into one data-file and doesn't show the item names of any other but the first script.
We tried to import this script into SPSS with the same result. Is there something we have to put in the survery-scripts (and therefore in the Batch) so that our Inquisit data-output shows the same name of the variable as we named them in Inquisit?
Attached our survey scripts and the inquisit output with 3 test-runs.
Hope you can help us with this?!
Thanks so much in advance, cheer*c&n

RE: Screening data in SPSS

NicolettaConColetta — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:38:42 GMT

Good to know! Thanks a lot for your reply!
Cheerio*nicole

RE: Screening data in SPSS

Dave — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:23:18 GMT

Data output for <survey> elements cannot be customized. So the answer is no, I'm afraid. (It is trivial to discard any unneeded variables in SPSS, though.)

RE: Screening data in SPSS

NicolettaConColetta — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:47:20 GMT

Perfect! Thanks a lot!
One more (tiny) question:) - in our screening, Inquisit is now also recording the latency time of every item, which we need in the tasks, but not in the survey-screenings. Is there another trick to tell Inquisit not to record these?
Thanks again in advance,
cheers*nico&constanze

RE: Screening data in SPSS

Dave — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:26:34 GMT

> [...] but puts the data of the 4 survey-scripts into one data-file and doesn't show the item names of any other but the first script.

By default, the name of the data file for a <survey> element is determined by a given <survey> element's *name*. The problem with your scripts is that the <survey> elements are all named *identically*, namely <survey screening>, and hence all write to the same file. Give them different, unique names (e.g. <survey screening1>, <survey screening2>, etc.).