Help us with our study on SimCity!

[gusandrews 0]

Hello players!  Could you help us out with game research?

We are three graduate students at Teachers College who have a grant to study the possibility that commercial games prepare people to do better in school. By taking our online survey, you'll be helping us figure out just how these games might be useful for learning.  (Bonus: you'll also get a chance to enter a raffle for an Amazon gift certificate!)

We admit the survey is long. You will be reading two PDF texts and answering about ninety questions, which will be about games, urban planning, and history. However, if you work on your personal computer (not a public one), you can save and quit the survey in order to come back to it later. You can finish it at your own speed!

NOTE: There are a lot of questions in this survey about Sim City and Civilization. If you have NOT played Civilization or Sim City before, please FEEL FREE TO SKIP THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE GAMES. We want you to take the survey even if you have not played these games!

If you're willing to help us out, please take our survey here:

http://geranium.tc.columbia.edu/~website/Survey/video-game-survey.htm . It's for a good cause: if we find out how games help people learn, we will encourage more teachers to allow or even use games in school.

Thanks for your time!

--The Spencer EGGPLANT Team

[GMT 389]

just did it.

interesting facts given in the 2 texts, tho the 2nd text, bout history, was way too much to read. but did it anyway.

the first text about urban sprawl was awesome.

tho the example of virgina beach isn't that good to show negative aspects, as the picture shows an area wich is easily reachable by foot from the surrounding residential areas. But the idea is delivered anyway, so I think it works

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I am not a student, so I am not really eligible to take this survey.

However, as a moderator of this section, I do remind members, even though this survey has been checked and found to be legitimate, to avoid giving away personal information over the Internet unless you have a properly secured session.

[The_sanderson 6]

Hmmm,i like it!Cool!But what are the style of the questions?Are they difficult?Plz,complete,i not understand all of th thread.

[crazyhorse128 0]

what do you plan to do with your results?