Why We're Testing The Website

Building a website is a lot like building a house — tastes are completely different.

We've designed a website that is as efficient and easy-to-use as possible, but so far we only know that it works for us. Our goal is to make EduGuide.org appealing to as large an audience as possible.

Now here's where you come in. We're asking you to put yourself in the shoes of a student, parent, or educator and then test drive a small section of the website. For parents and students this will be a quiz, and for educators it will be the parent's library. Give these areas a try, then fill out a survey — this will help us measure how well we've done with the website up to this point.

Take a Survey

Want to participate but only have a few minutes to spare? Share your feedback by completing a web testing scenario, and survey.

Choose a scenario from the list below by clicking on its link. You will be taken to a survey which will walk you through the testing process. Once you've submitted the survey, you're done.

• Parents - Next year your child is going into 6th grade, the first year of middle school. You are looking for ways to help your child prepare for the transition. You've come to the EduGuide website in search of resources that can help. After reviewing a few articles you come across a quiz titled "Middle School Success Quiz." You think maybe this quiz will help you rate your child's readiness for the sixth grade so you take it. Complete this survey

• Students - You are a high school senior getting ready to graduate and you plan on attending college in the Fall. You feel pretty confident about your decision, but you want to make sure you're ready because you want to be successful. Recalling the Web address from a magazine you read a couple of months ago, you decide to visit EduGuide.org to see what kind of information is available to you. Complete this survey

• Educator - You've tried everything you could think of to help Craig improve his behavior in your fourth grade class: warnings, time outs, restricted privileges, and even letters home to the parents. Other teachers have suggested that Craig may have a learning disability that is interfering with his ability to concentrate. It's a difficult subject; how do you talk to his parents about it, and how do you even know if that'€™s the problem. You want to discuss the situation with Craig's parents, but need more information before you meet with them. You visit the EduGuide website to look for some articles for background information on the topic of learning disabilities. Complete this survey

Join The Web Advisor Community

Stay in touch with other EduGuide users, get previews and insight on upcoming features, and post your questions or comments. This is all possible from inside the Web Advisors website at: http://www.eduguide.org/webadvisors

Become a member today and help shape EduGuide.org into a website that helps students.

Full versions of the following news stories are stored inside the Web Advisors Website.

Use the New Elementary School Quiz to Predict how your Child will do in School

I can't say that I learned a lot of new things from the elementary school quiz which was posted today inside EduGuide's parent library, but it did bring a lot of lingering issues up to the surface.

The results page which followed the quiz helped me to make sense of where my child stood and then offered me the opportunity to save some goals to my account. Now, the next time I log into EduGuide I will be able to review my list of goals and decide on where things stand. I'm planning on achieving at least one goal per week.

I'll let you know how things go as time goes on. I wish that I could share my goals with you, but I can't because they are customizable and saved inside my EduGuide Roadmap. But, go ahead and take the quiz and then save a set of goals for your child. Let us know what you though of the quiz and how you are doing with the goals.

This is just one of many quizzes that are available for completion on the EduGuide website. In fact, the quizzes are the subject of our ongoing testing program.