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ERIC Number: ED613807
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jul
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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The Effect of School Report Card Design on Usability, Understanding, and Satisfaction. Study Snapshot. REL 2021-101
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study on the effect of school report card design on usability, understanding, and satisfaction. The Every Student Succeeds Act requires state education agencies to produce school report cards that present information about school characteristics and performance in a user-friendly way. The District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) has developed an online school report card for communicating information about the characteristics and performance of schools. To support OSSE's interest in making report cards more usable, this study assessed the effect of different designs on how easy the report cards are to use and understand, how easy it is to find information in them, and whether users would recommend the site to others. The study found that moving the link to details of the district's School Transparency and Reporting (STAR) framework from the top of the page to beneath the STAR score improved the site's usability and that reporting the number of points possible for each metric led to a better understanding of how the score is calculated. This study illustrates how policymakers and practitioners in other states can efficiently test school report card design changes at scale. [For the full report, see ED613806. For the appendixes, see ED613808.]
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic. Available from: Institute of Education Sciences. 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20202. Tel: 202-245-6940; Web site: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/midatlantic/index.asp
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) (ED/IES); Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic (ED); Mathematica
Identifiers - Location: District of Columbia
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: EDIES17C0006