Monday, April 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Testing Procedure
The website will be easily accessed by any student, alumni, parent, friend, staff member or anyone who would like to view how MAST functions and what it is like to attend. Anyone who views the site will gain knowledge of what the students here go through on a regular basis.
The site will stand separate from the current MAST website because it's purpose is to give you a feeling of our school instead of brief information and sparse photos.
To assess my website I will give a survey to classmates, staff, my mentor, and groups from out of school. I'll give another to people I know who have a knowledge of photography and can critique the quality of my work. The first survey includes how professional the website's appearance is, how interesting it is, if it gives the viewer a feeling of life at MAST, along with other questions pertaining to the website itself. The other survey focuses on only the photographs and their quality. They both include space for additional comments.
For the website survey I will use as many students here as possible, staff, family members, and outside friends. The other, which focuses on photography, will be filled out by friends and counselors from camp who learned and taught photography and friends and my teacher from my precollege program who also have a knowledge of photography, along with any other photographers, professional or amateur that I know.
- Send my created survey to those I chose to fill it out, and hand survey to classmates and staff during class. They will fill them out and either send the completed form back to me or hand it back.
- Assess the results, making sure they were taken seriously and completely.
- Record results in spreadsheet.
This testing procedure will work by giving me a variety of feedback on my completed website from various groups of people. I want to have groups with varying levels of knowledge on our school which is why I chose students along with outside friends who hardly know anything about MAST. Parents provide the inbetween, they don't attend the school but they're children do so they have knowledge of it but not a large amount. The surveys will include a grading system, from 1-10 on each question that I ask. When I go over these results I can average the grades to see what is really thought of my work and what to improve.