Category: AuthoringSystem
Organization: Inst. of Math., Bulgarian Acad. of Science,
        Sofia, Bulgaria
Journal: Education and Computing
Abstract: The quality of educational software is to a large
        extent decided by features and capabilities of
        authoring systems. An attempt has been made to
        evaluate the quality of several more or less known
        authoring systems with an easy-to-use evaluation
        instrument. The approach is based on a general
        method for software quality evaluation developed by
        the authors. A relatively large set of about 60
        characteristics of authoring systems has been
        determined. Several well-known authoring systems
        have been screened on these characteristics. Each of
        these sample systems has been classified as
        excellent, good, or poor, according to the authors'
        views and on the basis of available references. Any
        new authoring system screened against the same
        characteristics can automatically be classified as
        excellent, good, or poor. By making use of
        properties inherent in the method, the set of
        characteristics used in the evaluation could
        significantly be reduced. By interchanging samples
        with authoring systems to be evaluated, as well as
        by other experiments, the reliability and stability
        of this approach were proved.
Number: 1
Bibtype: Article
Author: A. Eskenasi
        R. Radev
Pages: 43-7
Month: jun
Title: Evaluation of the quality of authoring systems
Year: 1989
Volume: 5
Keyword: authoring languages, computer aided instruction,
        software selection, quality, authoring systems,
        educational software, evaluation instrument