Discussion of procedures for selecting appropriate media in instructional development projects highlights a study that examined media selection decisions of instructional development graduate students under intuitive and model-directed decision-making conditions. Use of the Reiser-Gagne media selection flowchart is described, and implications for…

Discusses the evaluation of instructional software, describes two versions of a software evaluation model, and reports the results of two studies that compared evaluative decisions based upon subjective software ratings and data collected using both versions of the evaluation model. Teacher use of student data for decision making is also examined.…