TO: Media Services Director FROM: Student Inte DATE: October 12, 2018 SUBJECT: Media Services Website Redesign Instructions Usability Data Analysis Plan The type of study that was conducted was of randomized block design. It is of random design because all participants in the study were selected randomly. The faculty, staff, and students were sel either only the written instructions (Set 1) or the written instructions with visuals (Set 2)), the amount of time it takes for the faculty, staff, and students to complete the task because it is, thought that students, faculty, and staff may respond differently to different sets of instruction, The explanatory variables are the type of person (student, staff, or faculty) and which set of instructions is used; both of the explanatory variables are categorial nominal. The response variable is the time taken to complete the instructions which is quantitative continuous. ted randomly. The design is then blocked because we want to sce how on average (using I would summarize the data by creating the first 6 different boxplots and 6 different histograms of the time taken, Each boxplot would be assigned a number (1 (faculty), 2 (staff), or 3 (student)) and a letter (A (Set 1) or B (Set 2). Twould then combine all the boxplots labelled with a number (1, 2, or 3) and the letter B to compare the averages of the time spent by faculty, staff, and students using set | of instructions (w/o visuals) in a comparative box plots graph, using a bar graph of the median times of each boxplot to make conclusions of about the relationship between the explanatory and response variables. I would repeat the same process for the A-lettered boxplots to compare the averages of the time spent by faculty, staff, and students using set 2 of instructions (w/ visuals). We could repeat the process with the histograms if we are more concerned about making conclusions about the the average times. These averages can then be compared to generate some evidence for estimates to begin answering the following questions. Is there a significant difference in the time taken to complete the instructions when the instructions contain visuals versus when the instructions don’t contain visuals. Is there a significant difference in the time taken to complete the instructions when the subject is faculty, staff, or a student and is this difference the same across different types of instructions?A possible confounding variable is the type of device used to do that the task (getting to the website homepage and completing the instructions). Smartphones often load the website at different speeds compared to that of most computers. Another possible confounding variable is the internet bandwidth that each subject uses. Because this will most definitely not be constant across all samples, it may cause changes in the time taken to complete the instructions. A possible solution to both problems may be just gathering all of the experiment participants in a controlled environment and have them complete one’s assigned set of instructions one-by-one where every subject of every sample is using the same exact computer to complete the set of instructions.