In class we were asked to create a questioner together and we did this by writing down our own individual questions on separate  pieces of paper. Afterwards we shared the questions we had written and we discussed weather or not the questions would be used in our final questioner.This is our class draft of our survey which we asked a group of school pupils to fulfill.

  1. How old are you? 3 choices
  2. What gender are you? M, F, O
  3. Do you like to customize games (building levels/content etc)
  4. M.O. mass multi player online / Campaign (solo story mode)/ local multiplayer split screen
  5. What is your opinion on violence in games? … explain
  6. What favorite art style? – Realistic, cartoon/stylized , simplistic (pixel art), other
  7. How much does character customization matter to you?
  8. What country would you like the game to be set in?
  9. Sub genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Shooter, platform, mythic, puzzle, comedy
  10. Do you like to have a sense of logic in your game? – IE A world that could actually exist? Or could it have elements of fantasy? Logic/Fantasy
  11. What platform? PC, XBOX, PS, mobile, handheld console
  12. How important are graphics?
  13. How much would you be prepared to spend on a game?
  14. What would your ideal character be like?
  15. Would you like the main character to be exaggerated and heroic, or just someone regular?
  16. Would you like the main villain to be exaggerated and heroic, or just someone regular?
  17. What do you look for: Learning something new/game play/action/graphics/story
  18. What question should we have asked you?

 

Below is the results of the survey we conducted with the high school.

This survey tells me that the majority of high school students who play video games are aged 13-14 and not 15-16 as some people might think. I think we got this answer because 15-16 year olds are beginning to think about their life an their decisions as they take on more responsibility, meaning they do not have much time to waste playing video games. From the results above we learned that there are very mixed views on violence within video games ranging from answers such as “VIOLENCE IS GOOD”, “some people shouldn’t be playing high rated games to begin with” and “Violence should not be in video games” however the majority of answers say _____.

 

Explain that we first worked individually thinking up questions – add your own scanned sheet **

Explain how we chose the final questions. What type of data are each of the questions? Are they qualitative or quantitative?

What problem did we have with the questions?

What did we have to think about (age of students? What would they understand etc)

What is the difference between a closed and open answer?

How did we make sure we didn’t guide the questions too much? How did we make sure we allowed the students to give their own opinion?