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Gati, Itamar, Fassa, Naomi – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1997
Presents 13 criteria counselors can use to evaluate computer-assisted career guidance systems, in three categories: occupational database, career decision-making process, and effectiveness of computerized interaction. Suggests how evaluation data can be used to select systems, increase their effective use, and provide feedback to developers. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Computer Software Evaluation, Counselor Role, Evaluation Criteria
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Szul, Linda F.; Bouder, Michele – Business Education Forum, 2003
Suggests uses of speech recognition devices in the classroom for students with disabilities. Compares speech recognition software packages and provides guidelines for selection and teaching. (Contains 14 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Business Education, Computer Software Evaluation, Disabilities
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Ellsworth, Nancy J.; Hedley, Carolyn N. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Suggests that, in reviewing software, educators should apply the following criteria within the context of their objectives and the students' needs: content; instructional presentation; demands placed on the learner; technical features; and documentation and management features. Concludes that integration of computer software with traditional means…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shermis, Mark D.; Mzumara, Howard R.; Olson, Jennifer; Harrington, Susanmarie – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2001
Examined Project Essay Grade (PEG) software for evaluating Web-based student essays that serve as placement tests. In the first experiment, a sample of student essays was used to create a statistical model for the PEG software; the second experiment compared computer and human ratings of essays. Found that the software is an efficient means for…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Essay Tests, Grading, World Wide Web
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Kao, Gloria Yi-Ming; Lin, Sunny S. J.; Sun, Chuen-Tsai – Computers & Education, 2008
The authors address the role of computer support for building conceptual self-awareness--that is, enabling students to think outside of concept boundaries in hope of enhancing creative potential. Based on meta-cognition theory, we developed an integrated concept mapping system (ICMSys) to improve users' conceptual self-awareness in addition to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Information Management, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
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Doering, Aaron; Veletsianos, George – Internet and Higher Education, 2008
Educational technology and instructional design research has focused on evaluating interventions and innovations in terms of their effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal. While such indicators of learning outcomes are important, designers should also strive for engaging, socially just, and transformational instruction. To illuminate the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education, Learner Engagement
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Downes, Stephen – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
Stephen Downes continues his examination of open source learning management systems (LMSs) with a visit to Sakai's Web site. While Sakai's Web site is not particularly easy to navigate, it provides access to a large community and constellation of related online learning products and initiatives. Visitors can visit discussion forums to ask…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware, Web Sites
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Radulescu, Iulian Ionut – Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2006
Software complexity is the most important software quality attribute and a very useful instrument in the study of software quality. Is one of the factors that affect most of the software quality characteristics, including maintainability. It is very important to quantity this influence and identify the means to keep it under control; by using…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Programming, Case Studies, Learning Processes
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"DaisyQuest" is a software bundle that offers computer-assisted instruction in phonological awareness, targeting children aged three to seven years (or preschool to second grade). The instructional activities, framed in a fairy tale involving a search for a friendly dragon named Daisy, teach children how to recognize words that rhyme;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Preschool Children
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Busstra, Maria C.; De Graaf, Cees; Hartog, Rob – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2007
This article describes the design, implementation and evaluation of digital learning material on the social--psychological Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and its use in nutrition behavior research. The design is based on guidelines derived from theories on instructional design. The major component of the design challenge is to implement three…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Courses, Nutrition, Instructional Design
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Thomas, Melanie – Journal of Access Services, 2007
With the expansion in quantity of full-text content material made available through online database subscriptions, aggregator services, and over the Internet, the need for print materials seems to have diminished over recent years. Growing, too, are the numbers of students taking advantage of distance learning opportunities, scattered miles and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Internet, Best Practices, Computer Software Evaluation
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Houston, Tony – CALICO Journal, 2007
With the advent of web-based programs that automate the scoring of exercises, materials are now being developed from the outset with the capabilities of the web in mind. Materials developed without consideration of the web's capabilities, on the other hand, must be retrofitted. Texts that are retrofitted to the web have the advantage of being…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Web Sites, Courseware
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Mitrovic, Antonija; Martin, Brent; Suraweera, Pramuditha; Zakharov, Konstantin; Milik, Nancy; Holland, Jay; McGuigan, Nicholas – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
Over the last decade, the Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group (ICTG) has implemented many successful constraint-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) in a variety of instructional domains. Our tutors have proven their effectiveness not only in controlled lab studies but also in real classrooms, and some of them have been commercialized.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investment, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Artificial Intelligence
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Gaudioso, E.; Hernandez-del-Olmo, F.; Montero, M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
Teachers in e-learning play a crucial role as facilitators of the students' learning experiences. To this end, a teacher needs to monitor, understand and evaluate the activity of the students in the course. What is more, e-learning can be enhanced if tools for supporting teachers in this task are provided. In this paper, two experiences are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Role
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Ip, Barry; Capey, Martin; Baker, Andrew; Carroll, John – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This paper explores a relatively new area in the design and development of assessment procedures for the evaluation of coursework and student performance on computer and video games degrees. Emphasis is placed on an assessment which involves the development of and interaction in a virtual world, where lecturers and students are represented as…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Video Games, Virtual Classrooms, Computers
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