Making year-over-year change salient helped users identify which schools improved most but lowered usability and satisfaction ratings¶
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q2 i? Making year-over-year change in school performance salient made it easier to identify which schools had improved the most, but participants rated usability and satisfaction lower. → Jesse Chandler 2021
Evidence¶
Jesse Chandler 2021¶
Jesse Chandler, Jacob Hartog, Erin Lipman, Jonathan Gellar. (2021). The Effect of School Report Card Design on Usability, Understanding, and Satisfaction. Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs
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Design-comparison study of the DC school report card. The summary reports that "making year-over-year change in school performance salient made it easier to identify which schools had improved the most, but participants disliked this feature."
"making year-over-year change in school performance salient made it easier to identify which schools had improved the most, but participants disliked this feature (demonstrated by lower ratings for usability and satisfaction)"
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Related Claims¶
- Moving the link to the STAR framework from the top of the page to beneath the STAR score improved the school report card site's usability — related
- Participants who accessed the report card site with mobile devices had more difficulty using it — related
- Supporting user interaction and control in the indicator implementation process positively affects transparency, trust, satisfaction, and acceptance in LA — related
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Making year-over-year change salient helped users identify which schools improved most but lowered usability and satisfaction ratings |
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Making year-over-year change salient helped users identify which schools improved most but lowered usability and satisfaction ratings |
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2021 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-08 |
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