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Low Income & Minorities in Education

MAKING DREAMS ACCESSIBLE

BY ASSISTING LOW-INCOME AND MINORITY STUDENTS IN FINDING AND EXPLORING THEIR PASSIONS

Outline

Method + Test Measure Results Future Work

Participants

East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy (EPAPA) Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory - Piro Program

lunchtime tested on iPhone randomly asked no compensation study hall tested on iPhone chosen by teacher cookies as compensation female Latina freshman male Latino freshman male Black freshman male Latino sophomore female Latina freshman

Apparatus

Tasks

EXPLORE SEARCH REVIEW

categories evident? fun? chill? description helpful?

• pportunities

as grid? how would you filter/search? sticky footer

• bvious?

popup module friendly?

Procedures

introduction app expectations role in study consent form questions free response three tasks

Test Measures

Find Page Match Program Find Program Write Review Wrong Clicks Positive Statements Confused statements

Results- Explore

Most intuitive task Unsure button rarely clicked Questions were relevant 3:5 student noticed opportunities distinction 1 student didn’t understand some terms like “initiative” profession

• pportunity

Results- Search

Liked the grid format with images but some white space was awkward 3:5 students did not use the search bar very much, preferred to scroll Toggle for the content of the program so you click and it shows Filter options (type, grade, cost, location) were relevant and sufficient

Results- Review

Review button quickly found because sticky footer Students preferred freeform review

Discussion- What We Learned

Students really want to see sports opportunities Descriptions were helpful since some words aren’t common Searching wasn’t that intuitive for people

Discussion- Possible Changes In Interface

Header info for current page Sticky header for search & filter bar on ‘Find Opportunities’ page Clicking on opportunity opens modal instead of new page Make Opportunities suggestions in ‘Explore’ obvious Clicking on opportunity opens modal for more info Confirmation popup for ‘Saved in My Opportunities’ when ‘Liked’

Discussion- Field Work Analysis

Difficulties: Finding willing participants Not as talkative participants Improvements: No direct connection between participants and us Representative of actual users

Summary

Major Changes First time testing our Explore feature Field Tests Explore feature was intuitive and chill to use Future Changes Subtle adjustments to UI