ERIC Number: EJ785164
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Dec
Pages: 18
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1059-0145
Evaluation of an Educational Computer Programme as a Change Agent in Science Classrooms
Muwanga-Zake, Johnnie Wycliffe Frank
Journal of Science Education and Technology, v16 n6 p473-490 Dec 2007
I report on benefits from 26 teacher-participant evaluators of a computer game designed to motivate learning and to ease conceptual understanding of biology in South Africa. Using a developmental, social constructivist and interpretative model, the recommendation is to include the value systems and needs of end-users (through social dialogue); curriculum issues (learning theories in the ECP and those the education authorities recommend, as well as ECP-curriculum integration); the nature of the subject the ECP presents (e.g., Nature of Science); and the compatibility of the ECP with school computers.
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Evaluators, Scientific Principles, Change Agents, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Classrooms, Biology, Computers, Games, Integrated Curriculum, Learning Theories
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: South Africa

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