Evaluation+Due+Apr+24

Gimp Survey []

Student Assessment

Revised Student Assessment Rubric: I changed the rubric mostly because having 4 techniques in each photo would be a little too much. Let me know your thoughts. - Jen

Student Assessment Summary: Below is a summary of the results of what the students did (or in this case, DID NOT do). I wish more students attempted to do the project.

Stephanie, here is a little something I wrote up describing the surveys I received from the students re: Seashore:

Seashore Survey Results I received a total of 3 completed surveys. Of the three students who completed surveys for Seashore, two of them said they were either somewhat comfortable or extremely comfortable with macs while one was extremely uncomfortable with macs. It looks like they used all the videos, such as working with layers, changing colors, effects, etc. Two of the students thought Seashore was very difficult while one thought it was "somewhat easy to use". This was not surprising to me, as I myself thought the program was not extremely user friendly. For example, there's no option under the menu to "resize" an image. To resize you have to hold down the shift key and drag your mouse in and out to make the image larger or smaller. However, even I had to look this up as it wasn't a very obvious option in the program. When asked if they thought the program had the options they needed for their photography class, 2 of the students said no and one said yes. However, none of the students thought the program was an adequate match for Adobe Photoshop Elements. When asked if having the program at home would improve their performance in the class, 2 of them said no, which isn't surprising since they thought the program lacked many features and wasn't user-friendly. However, one of the students said it "maybe" would help increase his/her performance in the class. Two of the students said they don't plan to use the program again, although one does plan to use it again. On the last question, they were asked if they had ever heard of the program Seashore before visiting our website and all of them said no. That's actually very good because it means that even if they don't use the program again that because of our website they were exposed to something new so at least they know there are other options out there. And based on the survey results, at least 1 of the 3 (33%) plan to work with the program again. Because there was only 1 student who selected a "5" on a 1-5 level of comfort with macs (with 5 being "extremely comfortable") then it may be that the one who was extremely comfortable with macs will be the one to use the program again, as a student who is not comfortable with macs would need to learn about macs AND a new program instead of just having to learn a new program. Based on my own experience working with the program, these are the kind of results I expected for the Seashore program.

Troy, April 21

Here is the summary for the Gimp Survey. I typed it up in word. For some reason I can't type in the wiki. There is a delay or something.

Jen, 4/21

Artweaver Survey Results
The results of the 10 completed Artweaver surveys are as follows: 30% of the students used the Installing Artweaver PDF and 40% used the Editing PD. 50% used the Selecting and Pasting Layers as well as the Adding Shadows tutorial. 70% used the Clone Stamp. The most used tutorials were Changing Color and Contrast and Filters and Patterns with 80% and 90% respectively. 10% of the students selected Other.

80% of the students had never heard of Artweaver before. 20% said the program was easy to download, 60% said somewhat easy, and another 20% said somewhat difficult. 10% said Artweaver was easy to use. 60% said somewhat easy, 20% said somewhat difficult. 10% said it was hard.

30% of the students said Artweaver could be used as an adequate substitute for Adobe Photoshop, 20% said No, and 50% said Maybe. 30% of the students responded that Artweaver has everything they need for Photography, 60% said the program has most of the tools they need, but a few are missing; 10% said Artweaver only has some of the tools they need. No student responded that Artweaver does not offer any tools they need.

70% of the students said having access to Artweaver at home would help their performance in Photography, while 30% said it would not help their performance.

10% of the students rated their experience as poor with Artweaver, 20% said it was fair, and 70% said it was Good. No student selected their experience as Excellent.

10% of students selected poor and fair ratings for the instructional materials (videos and handouts) for Artweaver, 50% gave a rating of good, while 30% said the materials were excellent.

50% of the students plan to use Artweaver in the Future, 10% said no, and 40% said maybe.

When asked what additional Artweaver techniques would you like addressed in the tutorials, 2 students responded with the following: //"I really liked the clone stamps but i could not use selecting and pasting layers and adding shadows. I think these techniques are enough for editing photos. : )"// and //"Motion Blur/Other Special Effects"// Also 2 more students responded with "none" and one student replied "no."

When students were asked to list any additional comments, such as likes or dislikes, that would help us improve our website, we received the following 6 responses.
 * //"Downloading this program was very easy.But it was little bit hard to follow instructions by watching the video.I could not add the shadows. But pretty much i had good experience with it and i will definitely use in future."//
 * //"I liked the filters that were available but i feel it needs more effects and an broader tool bar to make it easier to use."//
 * //"i didnt like that you couldnt resize a layer after you move it to the background layer and i like the color effects in adobe and the filter choices"//
 * //"The load time and video size of the tutorials"//
 * //"i Liked the program but my it was hard to download on my computer"//
 * //"no"//

Overall 80% of students who had never heard of Artweaver were exposed to the program from visiting our website. 30% of the students said Artweaver was an adequate substitute for Adobe Photoshop Elements, and 50% said maybe. 70% said having access to Artweaver at home would help their performance in Photography. 90% of the students said the program had all or most of the tools they needed for Photography. 70% said the program was easy or somewhat easy to use and 80 % said the program was easy or somewhat easy to download. 70% said their experience with Artweaver was good. 80% of the students rated the instructional materials good or excellent. Half of the students said they would use Artweaver again and 40% said maybe.

Based on the data, I feel that Artweaver could be used as a successful alternative to Adobe Photoshop Elements for students working on their Photography assignments at home. Perhaps a video tutorial on installation would be helpful for the students who said the program was difficult to install. Artweaver does not have a specific tool for adding shadows, but it might be included when a newer version of the program is released. There is also an Adobe Photoshop extension pack that can be added to Artweaver, which includes more of the tools that students are used to using in Photoshop Elements.

- Apryl 4/23

-Jen 4/23