Creating Barrier-Free, Broadband Learning Environments

Appendix A: Evaluation Report

CANARIE Project: Broadband Access to Education

• Ten Usability Heuristics
• Distance Education Expert Survey
• Pre-Study Questionnaire
• Comprehension Test
• Post-Study Questionnaire
• Physics Content Questions
• Player Evaluation : Hard of Hearing, Caption Users
• Player Group Two LD Session Notes
• Authoring Tool Evaluation

Post-Study Questionnaire

Participant #: ____________________________

1. On a scale of 1-5 (1=very poor & 5=very good) please rate the following:

	Standard ASL Video	Acted ASL Video
Comprehensibility of content
Visual appeal of ASL
Component Ability to engage with material
Difficulty/Ease attending to the ASL Actor and video simultaneously
Clarity of ASL image
Understanding of ASL Actor

2. Check your likes and dislikes (and neutral) of the following components:

	Dislike	Like	Did not notice
Subject matter
Characters
Plot
Use of Costumes by ASL actors
Borders around the videos
Quality of ASL ÒenunciationÓ

3. Would you pay to have this style of ASL added to your choice of video content? Why/Why not? 

Standard ASL _____________________________
Acted ASL _____________________________
Control over ASL presentation (i.e. size, position)_____________________________

4. Suggestions?

 

5. Providing ASL in these formats would add extra costs to production. For each format, rate the worthiness of these extra costs (where 1 = not at all worthy & 5 = very worthy).

Standard ASL   
1  2  3  4  5

User-determined settings (i.e. position)   
1  2  3  4  5 

Acted ASL   
1  2  3  4  5 

6. Would you pay to have the following formats added to your choice of video?

Standard ASL
Yes   No

User-determined settings
Yes   No

Acted ASL
Yes   No

7. What were your ASL box preferences (please check)?

ASL Video Above Main Video	OR	ASL Video Below Main Video
ASL Video Near Main Video;	OR	ASL Video Apart from Main Video
ASL Video Smaller than Main Video	OR	ASL Video Larger than Main Video
ASL Video with Border	OR	ASL Video without Border

8. Did you prefer to have a frame or no frame around the video? Why?
9. Which video option did you prefer? (Large ASL Video, Small ASL Video) Why?
10. Did you find the video interface easy to use? What problems did you experience with it? How might we improve it?