When and how to use Ranking and/or Rating slide

Problem

So you want to rank, but you don't know how to instruct the audience to do it, or what to expect from the results.

Solution

When you're deciding which method to use for ranking/rating type of interactive slide, think of what your desired outcome is.

Check out this quick guide to help you decide which slide is the best and then come back here if you think that Ranking (using a priority order), or Rating (using a rating scale) is the right way to go.

Ranking (Priority Order)

When using a Ranking Slide, you want to say to your audience: "Push the buttons in the order you wish the items were if YOU were typing them."

This allows the user to pick items from the list out of order - the order they desire them to be in.

Different keypads allow for a different kind of operation:

- Multi-Digit keypads (EZ-VOTE 10 and EZ-VOTE PRO) let the user enter all digits at once and then submit all of them at once. This also allows them to spot and correct their mistake, if they pushed the wrong button (before they submit the vote).

- Single-Digit keypads (EZ-VOTE 5 and EZ-VOTE HD) let the user submit the selection/choice one button press at a time. Each vote is submitted separately, without the ability to 'go back' and correct the previous votes.

When you're using a Ranking Slide, you may start out like this:

And when the vote is closed, you may end up with a re-ordered list like this:

There's no chart to show you how many votes were received per answer, but you'll see the final order of all Answer Choices as the group (averages) reordered them.

Rating Slide (Using a Rating Scale)

When using a Rating Slide, your audience should be instructed to: "Push the button that corresponds to the value on the rating scale. Think before you because you have to vote in the order the items are shown on the screen."

For example, on the slide below, there were four items to vote on and the rating scale was 1 - 4.

Three keypads voted:

Keypad 1: 2,4,4,3

Keypad 2: 2,1,4,3

Keypad 3: 1,1,4,2

Here are the results, reordered to show that Option 3 always got a rating of "4" from every keypad, thus becomes #1 on the list after reordering. It received a total of 12 votes, which averages out to 4 (12/3 = 4).The math continues down each Answer Choice and the only reason why you see whole numbers where average is clearly 2.666666666666667 (e.g. Answer Choice #4) is that we round the number. That's also the reason why you see "2" after Answer Choices #2 and #1 - one has an average rating of 'true' 2 (6/3 = 2) and the other one is 5/3 = 1.666666666666667 rounded to 2 also.

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