ARTEFACT 1- EVALUATION

My PRP project is on Instructional. My aim is to find the best format of instruction for visual designers.
However for my first artefact I aimed to find a broader opinion from all types of learners.
I created a questionnaire consisting of 8 basic questions about instructional design; I sent these out via email to about 100 people. Most were sent out to designers from art and design social networks such as Behance and Deviant art, and then I sent out about 20 to other learners. I asked questions such as 'What is instructional design?', 'what form of instruction do you prefer?', and 'why you prefer this method?'.
Firstly I asked the gender and ages of the participants. I chose to use ages from 0-41 as I thought these were the ages people would tend to learn design.
Through my artefact I found that most didn’t know what instructional design was, just over 60%. This wasn’t surprising as I asked a selection of people that weren’t designers.
Also from the question ‘which format of instruction do you prefer?’ I found very similar results for 3 different formats of instruction. Text only instruction, image only instruction and text and image together instruction all had about 33% user preferences. This was weird at first, but I realised that because I asked a wide range of people they will all learn slightly differently, and that’s why the results were so evenly spread out.
My findings through this artefact were that image and text tend to be the best learning form for most users. And one to one and group sessions weren’t as helpful, therefore I will not test these two methods further into my research.
For my next artefact I will create some instructions and test on a specific group of people with varying skills sets.