Free Response

Often, the need arises to allow the respondent to provide more information than just a single response (as in multiple choice or Likert/Semantic Differential), and instead allows the respondent to enter lines or paragraphs of text.

This allows for a response question similar to the following: What are your feelings about world peace?

General Format

Each free response item or group of response items must have the following general markup:

    <free response>    <text [text of the question]>    </free response> 

When this markup is executed, it will display the question, together with an editing screen that allows the user to create a free-form text response to the question. The user enters the data into the editing screen much like he or she would when using a text or line editor. This text is saved as a response to the question. The following is an explanation of the tags:

    <free response> is the keyword tag for the question type.    <text [text]> is the question text for the free response.    </free response> closes the free response markup tag. 

Example

    <free response>    <text What are your feelings about world peace?>    </free response>