April 23, 2024
This month, five homeschooling families evaluated three new toys (rating them on a scale of 1 to 10, with “1” being the best and “10” being the worst), but just couldn’t agree. Some toys got straight 10s from one family, then averaged a “5” from another. Some kids just wanted to play, whereas others were happy to learn, too. To view more detailed responses to the toys, please click here.
Products:
| Mom’s Homeschooling Roundtable Questions | Products | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| How appealing is the packaging? | 7.6 | 9.4 | 6.8 |
| How likely would you be to buy this product in a store, based on packaging alone? | 7.6 | 8.5 | 7.4 |
| Once the product is open, how appealing are its contents? | 8.4 | 8.75 | 9 |
| How easy are the instructions to understand … for Mom? | 9.2 | 9 | 9.4 |
| How easy are the instructions to understand … for kids? | 8.4 | 8 | 7.2 |
| How satisfied were you with the amount of time it took to set up or prepare the toy? | 7 | 7.75 | 7.8 |
| How excited were the kids about the prospect of using this toy? | 7 | 10 | 9.2 |
| How involved were the kids when getting ready to play with the toy? | 8.2 | 10 | 9.4 |
| How interested in the toy were the children once play began? | 7.8 | 8 | 8.8 |
| How much fun did the kids think it was to play? | 7.6 | 7 | 8.4 |
| How much did the kids think they learned while playing with the toy? | 7.4 | 5.25 | 7 |
| How much did you think the kids learned while playing with the toy? | 8.2 | 6.25 | 8.2 |
| How appropriate an addition to a homeschool curriculum is this toy? | 9.4 | 6.75 | 8.6 |
| How appropriate a learning tool outside of the classroom is this toy? | 7.4 | 7 | 6.8 |
| Knowing what you now know about the toy, how likely would you be to buy it for your children or recommend it to other parents? | 7.8 | 6.5 | 9.2 |
| Knowing what they now know about the toy, how likely would your children be to buy it, request it or recommend it to other children? | 6.2 | 7 | 8.6 |
| TOTAL SCORE | 7 | 7.8 | 8.21 |
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