The last four digits of your student ID:
1. Your age:
2. Your are: female male
3. You are a: Undergraduate Graduate student Professional Other
4. Have you worked in transportation planning or engineering before (including internships)?
Yes No
5. If so, how many years of working experience do you have in the field of transportation:
(in years)
6. Do you plan to pursue a transportation career? Yes No Maybe
7. List any transportation planning or engineering courses you have taken before:
PART I: LEARNING STYLE
8. Of the following words, check any one(s) that describe your learning style or learning preferences:
Concrete experience (feeling)
Reflective observation (watching)
Abstract conceptualization (thinking)
Active experimentation (doing)
N/A
9. Between “Sensing” (concrete, practical facts and procedure oriented), and “Intuitive”
(conceptual, innovative, theories and meanings oriented), which of the following options describe your learning preference best:
Highly Sensing
Moderately Sensing
Mildly Sensing or Intuitive
Moderately Intuitive
Highly Intuitive
10. Between “Visual” (prefer visual representations, i.e. charts) and “Verbal” (prefer written or spoken explanations), which of the following options describe your learning preferences best:
Highly Visual
Moderately Visual
Mildly Visual or Verbal
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Moderately Verbal
Highly Verbal
11. Between “Active” (doing) and “Reflective” (thinking), which of the following options describe your learning preferences best:
Highly Active
Moderately Active
Mildly Active or Reflective
Moderately Reflective
Highly Reflective
12. Between “Sequential” (linear, orderly, learn in small increments) and “Global” (holistic, system thinkers, learn in large steps), which of the following options describe your learning preferences best:
Highly Sequential
Moderately Sequential
Mildly Sequential or Global
Moderately Global
Highly Global
13. Innovative teaching strategies motivate you to learn.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
14. Rate from 1 to 5 between the two statements: “1: I search for information I’m interested to learn” vs. “5: I am comfortable with learning what instructors teach”:
1 2 3 4 5
15. How would you rate your computer proficiency?
Very proficient Proficient Have some proficiency
A little proficiency None
16. Your weekly computer usage: (in hours)
PART II: RATING SAND AND ASSIGNMENT
A. Overall reaction
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1. Based on your experience with homework assignment, SAND is
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A. Hard Easy
B. Frustrating Satisfying
C. Dull Stimulating
2. Rate your overall satisfaction with homework assignment:
Unsatisfying Satisfying
3. Rate the quality of the design of homework assignment:
Poor Very Good
4. Time spent on homework assignment outside of class (in minutes):
5. Compared to other assignments I believe the assignment took:
Too much time Too little time
6. Supporting information (assignment sheet, instruction, user’s manual, and etc.) for lab assignments was sufficient:
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
7. Supporting information for lab assignments was clear:
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
B. Screen and Interface
8. Reading characters on the screen is
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Hard Easy
9. Organization of the information is
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Confusing Clear
10. Information about the progress of the model is adequate:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Never Always
11. The interface of SAND is
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Unpleasant Pleasant
C. System
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12. Outside of class (lab) where did you use SAND?
At school , please specify which lab:
At home , please specify:
1) your computer type: (e.g. Desktop, Pentium IV1.5G, 256M);
2) your internet connection: Dial-up Modem DSL Cable
13. System speed
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Too slow Fast enough
If too slow, what do you think the main cause is (check one):
Computer system Internet Browser/Java Simulator (SAND)
D. Effectiveness
Through this assignment,
14. Your understanding of transportation planning is enhanced
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
15. Your understanding on travel demand management is enhanced
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
16. Your understanding of transportation network design is enhanced
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
17. Your ability to form opinions regarding practical issues on transportation planning and network design is enhanced
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
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