BLS K to 12 Feedback Study

Appendix A: BLS K-12 Hallway Testing Protocol

Introduction: Hi! Thank you for helping us improve the Bureau of Labor Statistics Kids page!

• What’s your name?

• How old are you?

• What grade are you in? What’s your favorite subject in school?

• Do you use computers a lot? What websites do you like?

<Navigate back to the K-12 home page>

• Have you used the BLS K-12 page before?

• What is the coolest thing on this page?

• What looks interesting? Where would you click first?

Student Resources [ages 11 and older]

• What do you want to do when you grow up?

• If you came to this site to learn about [career student mentioned from previous question], where would you click first?

  • What do you think of this page?

  • Did you learn anything?

  • Would you use this page to find information about jobs?

  • Would you change anything?

Games [all ages]

• Where would you click if you wanted to do something fun on this page?

• What kind of games do you like?

  • Was that game fun?

  • Did you learn anything?

History of BLS [ages 11 and older]

• Where would you click if you wanted to learn more about the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

• What happened at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the year 2010?

Overall:

• Is there anything that would make this site better? [older and younger kids]

• Point to the face that matches how you feel about the site [younger kids]