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All Work and No Play: Measuring Fun, Usability, and Learning in Software for Children
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Sim, Gavin; MacFarlane, Stuart; Read, Janet – Computers and Education, 2006
This paper describes an empirical study of fun, usability, and learning in educational software. Twenty five children aged 7 and 8 from an English primary school participated. The study involved three software products that were designed to prepare children for government initiated science tests. Pre and post tests were used to measure the…
Descriptors: Courseware, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests, Science Tests