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 Master’s Student K-12 Private School Learning Design & Technology

Master’s Final Project — Website — Usability Process — Results — Questions

Are you in the education field? Participant box

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? Participant Box

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 . . . • Overall aesthetics Design Content • Information Labeling • Links and Sections Function • User expectations Wayfinding • Navigation

What you can test . . . • Overall aesthetics Design User Content • Information satisfaction Labeling • Links and Sections Function • User expectations Wayfinding • Navigation Ease Of Use

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 Task 2- Find teaching the term IDEA means strategies for a for a student with student with ADHD Dyslexia 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 Task 2- Find teaching the term IDEA means strategies for a for a student with student with ADHD Dyslexia Participant 1 17 seconds 15 seconds 1 minute 17 seconds 1 minutes 59 seconds Participant 2 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 — Glossary Button

Reason “I’m going to click on the dyslexia tab and then look for words that are bold, italic, or underlined.”

Improvements — Glossary Button

Improvements — Glossary Button — Title

Improvements — Glossary Button — Title — Information ¢ Statistics ¢ Testing ¢ Diagnosing

Round # 2

Improvements — Flashier Title

Improvements More! — Flashier Title — More Disabilities

Improvements — Flashier Title — More Disabilities — Multicultural Picture

— Struggles ¡ Website content ¡ Technical issues ¡ Time ¡ Feedback — Successes ¡ Using Weebly ¡ Finding participants ¡ Positive feedback ¡ Expansion (Content & Users)

Thank You — Family — UH Instructors — Colleagues — Critical Friends