USABILITY AND LEARNING - EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE

Authors
SQUIRES D PREECE J
Citation
D. Squires et J. Preece, USABILITY AND LEARNING - EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE, Computers and education, 27(1), 1996, pp. 15-22
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research","Computer Sciences, Special Topics","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
Journal title
Computers and education → ACNP
ISSN journal
03601315
Volume
27
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
15 - 22
Database
ISI
SICI code
0360-1315(1996)27:1<15:UAL-ET>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The evaluation of the use of educational software must take account of usability as well as learning and, crucially, the integration of tiss ues concerned with usability and learning. Checklists, a very common a pproach to the predictive evaluation of educational software, do not t ake account of this integration. A review of two well known checklists illustrate this. A structured evaluation model known as the Jigsaw Mo del is described. Empirical evidence is provided to demonstrate that t eachers' awareness of integration can be greatly improved by using the model. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.