BY: JANET POWELL
Usability Study Teacher Resource Website BY: JANET POWELL About me - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Usability Study Teacher Resource Website BY: JANET POWELL About me - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Usability Study Teacher Resource Website BY: JANET POWELL About me Technology Teacher K-12 Private School About me Technology Teacher Masters Student K-12 Private School Learning Design & Technology Masters Final Project
About me
Technology Teacher K-12 Private School
About me
Technology Teacher K-12 Private School Master’s Student Learning Design & Technology
Master’s Final Project
Website Usability Process Results Questions
Are you in the education field?
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Educators
5% of our nation’s
students have a specific learning disability
Learning Disabilities Association, 2015
“Private schools that do not specialize in these areas may not offer much support or even grant admission to students who struggle with certain issues”
- Tucker, 2015
Island School
Weebly
Drag & Drop Free Familiar Templates
The website
Have you done or participated in a usability study?
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Usability in a nutshell . . .
Build Test #1 Revisions Test #2 Revisions
Usability in a nutshell . . .
Build Test #1 Revisions Test #2 Revisions
What you can test . . .
Design- Overall aesthetics
What you can test . . .
Design- Overall aesthetics
Ease Of Use User satisfaction
Participants
Age
21-29 30-39 40-49 60+
Participants
Hours using the internet
3-6 Hours 11-14 Hours 15 + Hours
Scenarios
- 1. You have a new student in your classroom and have
been notified that the student has dyslexia. The parent mentions the term IDEA and you have no idea what this means but would like to find out what they are talking about.
Scenarios
- 2. Your student with ADHD is having trouble
completing tasks in class so you are looking for some strategies to use and implement.
Completion Time Round 1
Task 1 - Find out what the term IDEA means for a student with Dyslexia Task 2- Find teaching strategies for a student with ADHD Participant 1 19 seconds 39 seconds Participant 2 54 seconds * 25 seconds Participant 3 32 seconds 39 seconds Overall average 35 seconds 34.33 seconds * Did not complete task
Completion Time Round 2
Task 1 - Find out what the term IDEA means for a student with Dyslexia Task 2- Find teaching strategies for a student with ADHD Participant 1 17 seconds 15 seconds Participant 2 1 minute 17 seconds 1 minutes 59 seconds Participant 3 18 seconds 18 seconds Overall average 37.33 seconds 50.66 seconds
Positive Feedback
Survey Results
Round 1 Round 2 3.33 4.6 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 5 4.33 4.66 4 4.33 4.33 4.66 4.33 5
Interesting event . . .
Round # 1
Improvements
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Reason
“I’m going to click on the dyslexia tab and then look for words that are bold, italic, or underlined.”
Improvements
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Improvements
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Improvements
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¢ Statistics ¢ Testing ¢ Diagnosing
Round # 2
Improvements
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Improvements
Flashier Title More Disabilities
More!
Improvements
Flashier Title More Disabilities Multicultural
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Struggles
¡ Website content ¡ Technical issues ¡ Time ¡ Feedback
Successes
¡ Using Weebly ¡ Finding participants ¡ Positive feedback ¡ Expansion (Content &
Users)
Thank You
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