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Evaluation of an Educational Computer Programme as a Change Agent in Science Classrooms

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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.

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Muwanga-Zake, J.W.F. Evaluation of an Educational Computer Programme as a Change Agent in Science Classrooms. J Sci Educ Technol 16, 473–490 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-007-9078-y

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