Usability Studies: Grading Sheet (12%)

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Completeness of Report		*Missing*	*Incomplete portions*	*Complete*
	Scenario	0	0	0
	Methodology	0	0	0
	Observations	0	0	0
	Interpretations	0	0	0
	Suggested improvements	0	0	0
	Conclusions	0	0	0
	Appendix 1: Comparison	0	0	0
	Appendix 2: Raw data
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Graphics of work (e.g., appearance of the cover & content, typography, illustrations, white space)		*Ugly* 0	*Okay* 0	*Looks Great.* 0


Length of report		Way too long or far too short 0	0	Perfect, don't add or delete another character 0


Literary Quality		*Poor*	*Okay, but proof it more*	*Great*
	(Grammar, paragraph structure, section structure, clarity of writing, style and interest, verboseness)	0	0	0
	Spelling/typos	0	0	0





Technical Quality		*Poor.*	*Okay*	*Great*
	Scenario	0 (poor background)	0	0 (explained system, your role, & point of report)
	Methodology	0 (didn't summarize)	0	0 (good, concise description of methods used)
	Quality of tasks	0 (poor tasks - hardly anyone would try to do this in real life)		0 (excellent sample tasks with good explanations of why they were included)
	Questionnaire	0 (irrelevant questions, no explanations)	0	0 (highly relevant questions with good explanations)
	Observations	0 (hard to understand, not summarized)	0	0 (good summary of observations)
	Interpretations	0 (little insight added)	0	0 (strength/weaknesses identified/generalized)
	Suggested improvements	0 (poor /minor)	0	0 (excellent low-cost design changes)
	Conclusions and recommendations	0 (didn't conclude)	0	0 (summarized results and recommendations)
	Appendix 1	0 (little insight added)	0	0 (excellent discussion of methods)
	Appendix 2	0 (poorly organized)	0	0 (shows good record-keeping)
	Thoroughness of task selection (i.e., did you miss any thing)?	0 (only used sample tasks)	0 (provided a few good tasks, missed a few minor ones or one important task)	0 (provided a good range of tasks)
	Thoroughness of treatment	0 (superficial)	0	0 (balanced depth & breadth)

Grade: A ....... A- ....... B+ ....... B ....... B- ....... C+ ....... C ....... C- ....... D+ ....... D ....... D- .......

F .......
Note : A is superior report; B is better than expected; C is adequate; D is poor; F is unacceptable
Turn over for evaluator's comments and/or see report. Students are invited to see the T.A. for further comments on their report.