Review of the Educational Software Evaluation Forms and Scales

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to review existing evaluation forms and scales that have been prepared for educational software evaluation. In addition to this purpose, the study aims to provide insight and guidance for future studies in this context. In total, forty-two studies that including evaluation forms and scales have been taken into consideration. Educational software evaluation, Software evaluation, Educational software evaluation forms/scales were searched as keywords in the: Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC), Marmara University e-Library, National Thesis Center and Science Direct databases. Twenty-nine of them have met the review selection criteria and been evaluated. There is an increase in the number of evaluation tools between 2006 - 2010. However, it was noticed that there is no sufficient number of evaluation tools targeting educational games. It was concluded that reliability and validity studies are very important part of developing educational software evaluation tools and this is a matter that should be considered in future studies.