The next main menu tab in Assessment Center is Preview. This section of the application allows you to preview your study’s data collection website and launch your study for data collection.

There are several ways in which you are able to review your study. First, you will have the option to view response score associated with each response option during your data collection website preview. If you do not wish to see the response score during preview, change your response to the view item response scores question to no.

You will not need to modify the response score button in the Preview Study page after launch to ensure responses scores are not displayed to participants. Response scores will only be displayed to participants once a study is launched when the Show Response Score boxes are checked on the Item Detail page.

The second option available is study review is the Study Configuration Report. The report allows you to review your study configuration prior to launch. It is necessary to verify the information in the report is accurate prior to launching your study. The report contains details of your study set-up as entered on the Advanced set-up tab, e.g. study arms, instrument blocks per arm/assessment, administration engine etc. To open the report, click the Export button. The report will open as a CSV file and may be saved outside of Assessment Center. After you have reviewed the report and if all elements are correct, check the Approve box next to the Export button to confirm your review.

The third review option is to preview your study from the perspective of a participant. Click on the Preview Study button to launch your study to preview mode. The preview will show all study details, e.g. language, items/instruments, administration engines, instrument blocks per arm/assessment, etc as they will appear to study participants during actual data collection. The data collection pages will have a Preview watermark while in preview mode.

Finally, the Preview Study page contains a Study Summary Report. This section lists the end date, contact information, accrual goal, study URL and start date as entered on the Basic Set-up page and should be reviewed for accuracy. This report will also display warnings and errors if they occur within your study. Warnings provide information about problematic instrument elements but will not prevent a study from being launched into data collection. Errors detail issues within a study that could cause more serious data problems. Therefore, studies cannot be launched until errors are resolved.