The identification of evaluation criteria items and item importance of drill/practice and educational game software programs

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1988
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Jeng, Yoau-Chau
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Trevor G. Howe
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The purpose of this study was: (1) to identify which evaluation criteria will be necessary for the drill/practice and educational game software programs, (2) to identify each evaluation criterion the average importance on evaluation guidelines in the process of evaluating drill/practice and educational game software programs, (3) to provide school teachers, administrators and individuals with reference information for the evaluation of microcomputer software programs. An evaluation criteria survey instrument which contained basic information and evaluation criteria items was designed to achieve the purpose;A stratified random sampling technique was employed to select the sample size of 301 schools from the population of 1,506 elementary and secondary schools which use microcomputers in the classroom teaching;A split-plot analysis of variance was applied to determine if a statistical significance existed between the scale values of evaluation criteria from elementary and secondary school teachers. A split-plot analysis of variance was applied to determine if a statistical significance existed between the scale values of evaluation criteria from drill/practice and educational game software programs. A split-plot analysis of variance was applied to determine if an interaction existed between the scale values of school teachers and software programs;The results of analysis indicated that a significant difference existed between elementary and secondary school teachers for content quality evaluation criteria. This study also found that a significant difference existed between drill/practice and educational game software programs for content quality, instructional quality, and technical quality evaluation criteria.

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Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1988