Evaluating the Quality of Academic Websites using Proposed Framework – A Survey Study
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International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) | 
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| © 2016 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-40 Number-1 |
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| Year of Publication : 2016 | ||
| Authors : Kalpana Devi, Aman Kumar Sharma | ||
| DOI : 10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V40P105 |
Kalpana Devi, Aman Kumar Sharma "Evaluating the Quality of Academic Websites using Proposed Framework – A Survey Study". International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) V40(1):25-30, October 2016. ISSN:2231-2803. www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
Abstract -
As organization have become aware of
the strategic importance of websites, the trend to use
websites for various purposes has increased in
different domains such as health, government,
education and business. The main goal of this paper
is to improve the website quality evaluation
framework for academic websites from students’
perspective. For this purpose, the proposed quality
evaluation framework consisting of five high-level
quality factors (Functionality, Usability, Reliability,
Presentation and Content) and sub quality factors
are designed. The proposed framework applied on
five academic websites (GNDU, HPU, JPU, KU and
PU) to assess its websites. The effectiveness of the
proposed framework can be evaluated by compared
the responses of the students’ overall quality of
websites with the results of WEBUSE analysis
method. The results showed excellent quality of
Content, good quality of Functionality, Reliability
and Presentation while Moderate quality in
Usability.
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Keywords
Framework, Questionnaire, WEBUSE
method, Websites.