EDUTAINMENT SOFTWARE EVALUATION PREPARED FOR BIOLOGY INSTRUCTION

The aim of this study is to determine whether an edutainment software program, called “Biyoskop” prepared for computer assisted biology instruction, has educational quality according to the criteria which have to be taken into consideration during the evaluation process of an educational software program. The subjects of the study consist of a group of 48 biology teachers. In this research, “educational software evaluation scale”, which lists the criteria necessary for courseware programs used in computer assisted instruction, has been used in order to attain teachers’ evaluations regarding the appropriateness of content, ease-of-use, technical and educational adequacy of the software. As a result of the analysis of the gathered data, it has been evaluated that the software ranks “average” in terms of adequacy due to the lack of sufficient qualifications, such as the relation of the content to the target behavior, compatibility with the curriculum, providing opportunities of progress for the students asking for further information, providing additional activities and containing an achievement test.