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- QASAS - Overview
-
- The QA Survey Assessment System (QASAS) is a program which is designed to
- analyze the results Surveys and / or Questionnaires. Although the QASAS
- cannot analyze all Questionnaires, it is general enough so that it can
- analyze and produce useful information from many questionnaires. The DOS
- version has been used sucessfully in the past for such diverse uses as an
- Employee Morale survey, Quality Assurance Surveys in a hospital and
- Newspaper Readership Surveys. This Windows 95 version of the program is being
- released as shareware (program requires Windows 95 or Windows NT). Users who
- register the software are entitled to report bugs and will receive the latest
- version of the program by e-mail or disk. The shareware fee is $50. A
- registration form is included under the filename REGISTER.TXT. Installation
- instructions are included in the file INSTALL.TXT. More information about using
- the program can be found in the help file included in the program. Compuserve
- users may register the software via "GO SWREG".
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- The QASAS program allows you to specify the parameters for the Survey,
- including The Name of the Survey, The Number of Discriminants (such as
- respondent Age, Sex, etc.), The Names of Each Discriminant, The Possible Values
- for Each Discriminant, (5) How many sections the Survey has, Whether questions
- should be numbered or lettered, The names for up to ten generic fields
- (pieces of information) that you wish to keep about each respondent, The Names
- of Each Section, The Number of Questions in Each Section, Whether question
- should have Categorical answers or strictly numeric answers, And if the answers
- are categorical in nature, the Permissible Answers for all questions in a
- section, and, The Actual Questions for Each Section.
-
- After entering the parameters for a Survey, you can enter the actual responses
- which are received to the Survey.
-
- The QASAS can generate several reports regarding the Survey, including:
- (1) A listing of the Survey parameters and questions, (2) An Analysis of the
- responses to the Survey for each question, broken down by each of the
- Discriminants, (3) A raw listing of the responses to the Survey.
- Data summaries including Totals, Averages, Minimums, Maximums, Counts, (4) A
- tabular (columnar) analysis of a single discriminant, (5) A listing of the
- questions along with the answers for each respondent, (6) A tabulation of all
- responses broken down by two discriminants.
-
- In addition, the QASAS has the capability of transferring the survey information
- into formats which can be imported into many other programs, including Lotus
- 1,2,3; DBase III+; Foxpro and other programs.
-
- The present version of the QASAS is configured for the following Limits:
- Maximum Number of Discriminants 5
- Maximum Values per Discriminant 33
- Maximum Number of Sections 10
- Maximum Questions per Section 26
- Total maximum questions 260
- Maximum Values to a Question 10
- Maximum Number of Respondents Unlimited
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- System Requirements:
- This version of QASAS requires Windows 95. There is also a DOS version.
- Contact R & D Systems for more information.
- This version of QASAS should run on any computer which can properly run
- Windows 95. It is recommended that the computer have at least eight (8)
- Mb. of RAM although this is not required. QASAS should work on either
- a color or a monochrome monitor and should work with any printer
- that works with Windows 95. The program will require at least 1 Mb of
- hard disk space. More space will be required depending upon the number
- of surveys and number of respondents.
-
- List of files in this release:
- QASAS.EXE The executable
- QASAS.HLP The Windows 95 Help File
- MORALE.SVY A sample survey related to Employee morale
- MORALE.QRY The questions for the Morale survey
- MORALE.ANS The answers to the Morale survey
- SCREEN93.SVY A sample survey related to Quality Assurrance in a hospital
- SCREEN93.QRY The questions for the above survey
- SCREEN93.ANS The answers for the above survey (answers are semi-random data)
- README.TXT This file
- REGISTER.TXT A registration form to register this shareware.
- LICENSE.TXT License Agreement
- ORDER.TXT Order form
- LAYOUT.TXT File structure documentation
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- Copyright (c) 1996; All rights reserved
-
- R & D Systems
- PO Box 474
- Canandaigua, NY 14424
- e-mail: 74000.2756@compuserve.com
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dan_dorrough/
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