On Loosely Coupling Structure for Internet Surveys: A Case Study of a Survey System for Teachers In-Service Educational Demands

In this paper, from a viewpoint of information technology, we present a case study of a loosely coupling network survey system. The survey system was designed to understand the in-service educational demands for the teachers in Taiwan, R.O.C.. Two types of the questionnaires were used based on two different viewpoints: school administrative and teacher personal viewpoints. Each of questionnaire types is categorized into six questionnaires including kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, vocational high school, and special education school questionnaires. We introduce the background of the surveys and explain the computer software packages used in the survey system. We also propose the computer network structure and the data processing procedure of the survey system. We present the implementation results and discuss the problematic issues of the survey system. The surveys were held from February 24th, 2006 to March 19th, 2006. 56,245 samples were submitted via the internet. The case study of the implementation of the loosely coupling survey system could be valuable experience for people who want to process a large scale of network survey.