DEVELOPING EVALUATION INSTRUMENT FOR MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
Abstract: The rapid increase
and availability of mathematics software, either for classroom or individual
learning activities, presents a challenge for teachers. It has been argued that
many products are
limited in quality.
Some of the
more commonly used
software products have been
criticized for poor
content, activities which
fail to address
some learning issues, poor
graphics presentation, inadequate
documentation, and other technical problems.
The challenge for
schools is to
ensure that the
educational software used in
classrooms is appropriate
and effective in
supporting intended outcomes
and goals. This paper
aimed to develop
instrument for evaluating
mathematics educational software in order to
help teachers in
selecting the appropriate
software. The instrument considers the
notion of educational
including content, teaching
and learning skill, interaction, and
feedback and error
correction; and technical
aspects of educational software including design,
clarity, assessment and documentation, cost and hardware and software interdependence. The
instrument use a
checklist approach, the
easier and effective methods in
assessing the quality of educational software, thus the user needs to put tick
in each criteria.
The criteria in
this instrument are
adapted and extended
from standard evaluation instrument in several references.
Author: Wahyu Setyaningrum
Journal Code: jpmatematikagg090001
