Geology Explorer Evaluation

Please enter your name and the answers to the following questions onto the opscan sheet. Circle a letter A to E, with A being "I most strongly agree with the left-hand statement" and E being "I most strongly agree with the right-hand statement", C being neutral. 

Submission of this assessment, along with earning at least 500 points on Planet Oit, marks the satisfactory completion of your extra credit project. 

The game was:
1. complex to learn	A	B	C	D	E	simple to learn

2. difficult to operate	A	B	C	D	E	simple to operate

Purchasing an instrument was:
3. easy			A	B	C	D	E	complicated

Knowing what to buy was:
4. easy			A	B	C	D	E	complicated

Moving around was:  
5. easy			A	B	C	D	E	complicated

Finding goals (rocks and minerals) was:
6. easy			A	B	C	D	E	complicated

Getting my score was:
7. easy			A	B	C	D	E	complicated

I was:
8. able to keep 		A	B	C	D	E	unable to keep
track of my goals							track of my goals

9. able to keep 		A	B	C	D	E	unable to keep
track of my								track of my progress								progress

10. able to get the		A	B	C	D	E	unable to get
information I needed						the information I 
									needed

11. able to carry out	A	B	C	D	E	unable to carry
the actions I wanted						out the actions I
									wanted

12. able to get useful	A	B	C	D	E	unable to 
help about operating						get useful help
the game								about operating 
									the game
The game:
13. had a clear goal		A	B	C	D	E	did not have a
									clear goal

I had:
14. too little control	A	B	C	D	E	sufficient control over my progress							over my progress

I was:
15. able to develop		A	B	C	D	E	not able to
and implement							develop and
strategies								implement
									strategies

The game was:
16. too simple 		A	B	C	D	E	too complex

17. too difficult		A	B	C	D	E	too easy

After awhile the game:
18. lost its challenge	A	B	C	D	E	remained
									challenging

The unsolicited tutoring advice from the game was:
19. distracting		A	B	C	D	E	helpful

The tutoring advice that was available was:
20. informative and 	A	B	C	D	E	vague and
useful								useless

The actions I took and strategies I implemented:
21. had the impact		A	B	C	D	E	did not have the
that I anticipated							impact that I 
									had anticipated

The simulation of exploring a planet felt:
22. superficial/fake	A	B	C	D	E	real/tangible

There was:
23. too little detail in	A	B	C	D	E	too much detail
the game								in the game

The game was:
24. textually			A	B	C	D	E	textually dull
entertaining

There was:
25. enough textual		A	B	C	D	E	too little textual
detail									detail

The User Card was:
26. entertaining		A	B	C	D	E	dull

27. informative		A	B	C	D	E 	uninformative

The plot/story line was:
28. engaging	 	A	B	C	D	E	dull

The game:
29. remained		A	B	C	D	E	became
surprising								predictable

I.
30. liked the concept	A	B	C	D	E 	disliked the
of the game								concept of the
									game

31. learned something 	A	B	C	D	E	did not learn
from the game							anything from
									the game

The game was:
32. fun			A	B	C	D	E 	not fun

I would:
33. play this game		A	B	C	D	E	not play this
again									game again

NAME:__________________________

Please detach this sheet, and submit it with your completed opscan sheet.

Short Answer

How much time would you estimate you invested in playing the game?

Did you find the use of objects numbers (i.e. #1776) a help or a hindrance? 
Do you feel the object numbers make the game harder to play or harder to understand? 

Please list the things you most liked or disliked about the game. What suggestions would you make?

Have you communicated with others in Geology 120 who were involved in the "Magnetic Declination" extra credit project?	Circle one: Yes	No

If "Yes", would you rather have participated in the Magnetic Declination project or in the Planet Oit project? Why, or why not?

Did you play the game until you received a SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT?

If so, did you try to complete the SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT?

If so, please list the things you most liked or disliked about the SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

Please submit to D.P.  Schwert (Stevens Hall 131) by December 7, 1998:

•	the opscan sheet
•	this page (page 4) of the survey

Please make sure that your name is recorded on both sheets, so that we can record the full completion of your extra credit project. Thank you!