Plain Language Assignment

Test Type

Sub-types of Tests:

Goals

Text-based

Readability testing through:

· ‘Flesch Reading Ease,’ and

· ‘Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.’

· Effectiveness of users with respect to usability of the document. Comment by Joe Sample: You appear to be trying to define things here. Instead, you should give specifics on how you are going to test a document. If you still need a document to test, ask you classmates for assistance. Post to the entire class. Many of your classmates have more than one document they are considering.

· Measuring efficiency, learnability, user satisfaction, memorability, and error recovery.

User-based

Concurrent testing through:

· Exploratory Testing

· Assessment Testing

· Validation Testing

· Beta Testing

· Assessing usability of user via watching user’s behaviors during the reading process of report. Comment by Joe Sample: This is a little confused. You are considering the usability of a user. You can observe people using a document and not, for example, how they go about completing a task.

· Four goals of the testing procedures are cognition, perception, affect, and performance & behavior. Comment by Joe Sample: This does not make sense. The goal should be to determine how usable or how effective a document is. You are testing documents, not people.

Test Type

Researchers/Participants and Their Characteristics

Text-based

Demographic variables of the researcher states the characteristics as of male gender, 22 years age, no professional experience, and education level of graduation.

User-based

Characteristics of participants include mostly high-school graduates, and a relatively low proportion of undergraduates. The participants of the study who are interested in using the documents are members of civil society, school and college students, migrant labors from other countries, and general audience, and a larger portion of self-employed individuals. Comment by Joe Sample: What is the document you are proposing to use?

Test Type

Specific Features and Elements for Testing

Text-based

Diction, appropriate use of images, sentence length, paragraph length, design features, vocabulary utilization, and general usability. Comment by Joe Sample: It would be appropriate to consider only a few of these.

User-based

Apart from organization, navigation and completeness, testing aims to provide comprehensive overview of user experience during the process of using document. Civil society activists and migrant workers are looking for civil rights and labor related policies, while college students are looking to use the document in a way that provides in-depth understanding of the world’s best countries. Comment by Joe Sample: Can you focus this down a bit? Comment by Joe Sample: What does this mean?

Test Type

Questions/Scenarios

Text-based

Testing Questions:

· How was the design features of report? Comment by Joe Sample: This question does not make sense.

· Was it easy for below high-school education level qualification individual to use the report? Comment by Joe Sample: How would you define easy? Also, this sounds like a user-based test.

· Does this provide answers to the intended questions, or adds confusion? Comment by Joe Sample: Vague reference

· What are the functions, benefits, and limitations of the report when viewed with text-based testing? Comment by Joe Sample: A readability study such as found in Word is all you need for this test.

Testing Scenario:

· It entails the context in which participant is responding to the text, and the actual information expected to retrieve. For example, an international student studying in United States hopes to find an employment opportunity in a country that is most suited for his or her needs.

User-based

· What are the usability associated benefits of the document? Was it easy to understand in terms of technical jargons and English writing style? Comment by Joe Sample: You can speculate about the benefits in the report that results from the study. Comment by Joe Sample: Are you proposing to test non-native speakers?

· How was the formatting of the report? And did it manage to communicate critical information while reading the document of twelve pages.

· Difficulties and limitations of the document in usability terms based on users reading experience.