Thursday, February 23, 2012

Dissertation Survey

Call for Participation in Study on Online Video Games


Hi, my name is Jeannette Shaffer and I am a graduate student at George Mason University in Virginia.


As a gamer, I have become interested in how gamers help one another, challenge one another, and work collaboratively to complete a mission when playing video games online. I began wondering why doesn’t this happen in school with learning and especially with educational games?

As part of my studies, I am doing research to learn more about the tools high school students use to communicate when playing online and offline video games. Through this research, I hope to gather information that will help with the design of educational games, to make these more interesting and useful for high school students.

I have developed a survey to gather information about students’ use of these online and offline tools. To participate in this survey, you must be 13 – 18 years old, enrolled in high school, and an online gamer. The survey is anonymous so no personal identifying information is collected from you, and will only take about 15 minutes to complete.


To access the survey click here: Gaming Social Preferences Survey:


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7T2R59W

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.


Assignment GenYES Students:

After taking the survey please comment below on your thoughts regarding this survey either about; the quality of questions asked, what questions you would ask or why someone would conduct this kind of research. Perhaps you have other comments about all this, go for it.


30 comments:

  1. I think this survey was kind of a joke. I understood some of the questions but, they didn't seem well thought of. They just seemed like someone threw this together in a few minuets. When I got half way through it, the questions felt like they were repeating themselves.

    Carsen

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    1. The questions repeat based on discerning online vs. offline game environments.

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  2. I thought that the questions were too generic and it was sometimes hard to answer them because they are didn't make a lot of sense. One of the questions (the three by three) was frustrating because it didn't allow me to select the answers I wanted to click. There weren't enough options to say no and I felt that some of the answers that I was forced to plug in would skew the data.

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  3. I thought it was not very well thought out, and the questions really did repeat themselves after every page. Also, the reason kids do not do this in school, is because doing this is school is called cheating.

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  4. I do not understand the point. I see that she is trying to find out information but I think the questions are vague and can't produce good enough data. Gaming habits are pretty standard and she will most likely get a lot of standardized data. I also feel that the questions were worded badly and some answers did not allow a response for some people, kind of like: 1. Do you like pizza, 2. Why is pizza the best food ever. If you don't like pizza you can't answer the second question yet the survey requires you answer something. I also saw repetition in the questions. In general I feel like she really didn't try and I really wish I wasn't forced to take it.

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  5. I for the most part understood the first half but the last half that was about offline games were the exact same questions and it the questions didn't really relate to offline games. All and all the survey was flawed :/

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  6. The question quality was... meh. They could have really asked much better questions. They didn't really ask the greatest questions when thinking about video games. I mean, I see they were asking based on communication, but they asked questions that didn't seem relevant to the prompt.

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  7. I wasn't sure how relevant the questions were. They mostly were just the same questions over and over. They could have asked about how I feel about gaming, or something like that, all in all, interesting survey.

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  8. the questons were interesting but I dont think they would get her enogh information and she just re did the quiz for the second half The ofline didnt I though she was lerneing about educational games but she didint ask a single question about edagational games

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  9. The questions were pretty interesting. It asked me for my gamertag which i did not really understand at first, but did later. I actually liked this survey. i wonder how many kids just messed around answering the questions. I am curious on the results of the survey. I wonder how much kids play and how many hours as well.

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  10. it was kind of dumb, how are you going to talk to people you dont know in your own room. they could have asked better questions and raised the quality of them. I dont know why they asked about phones it was funny though

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  11. The survey needs work and i felt like i as answering all of the questions like 50 times. The questions need to be re worded so they make a lot more sense.

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  12. The survey was very thorough and covered all the basics of online and offline gaming, although it didn't ask what kind of games we played

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  13. The questions were we put. The survey itself was easy to understand and follow. I like how it is all secret. It is nice that no one knows what you do. Being a MAJOR online gamer, I took the liberty to tell the truth that yes I do play for more than 20 hours of online games a week

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  14. I didn't think that this survey was good because it kept asking me the same questions.

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  15. The survey was too broad. They need to be more specific and not ask the same questions. I felt like I was asked the same questions over and over in different words. Also, this survey did not have a focal point on one goal. It kind of just asked extremely open questions and had too much room to have questionable answers.

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  16. At first the questions were ok but then they went down hill. One of them was how often do you talk to people with when offline. There was no option that said never. So that was just am example but there were a few others that could have been done better.

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  17. It was pretty cool to share my gaming experiences in a survey that was going to people I don't know. Given personal information like that without knowing who was receiving it caused me to fib some of my answers. No, all of my answers.

    -GoogleKing

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  18. This survey is not very good. I am not the biggest online gamer. A lot of the answers to the questions were forced on me and it doesn't really reflect how I feel. I would have asked many write in questions because some questions can have many answers not just the 4 or 5 provided.

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  19. This survey asked the same questions repeatedly. I feel like the survey didn't make a lot of sense. The survey was very basic.

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  20. All it pretty much was asking if i play games, it was basically the same questions, and a pretty boring survey, it was very plain. Towards the end it got pretty dumb by asking the same questions too much.

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  21. The survey kind of made me remember the times I did play online. The questions seemed to all be the same. I had a little fun answering them. All the online gaming I could remember is Call Of Duty. There was a big amount of questions and I think it would help for research. It was very specific and clarified the point very often. This would be useful for getting info and was complex.

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  22. The survey asked random, contradictory questions. I tried to answer honestly... but I never talk to strangers who are in the room with me. I mostly talk to myself. I find that the format was not well planned out and that the survey was made in under 20 minutes.

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  23. The survey had some bugs, such as, when choosing "most of the time, not at all, etc." Also, the first have the survey for online gaming was too similar to the second half about offline gaming. As a whole, it probably gave here very good data that will help her in writing her dissertation.

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  24. Repeated questions....!!!! sorta.

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  25. I didn't like the repetitive boring nature of the test but all in all, for a survey on gaming, it covered a lot. I didn't understand some of the questions, for instance, on one I didn't want to pick any of the choices because I don't really know how many hours I play so I had to guess. The quality of the questions was pretty poor, they were pretty simplistic.

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