Multimedia Evaluations Based on Cognitive Science Findings

Abstract

Multi-media systems waltzed into the lives of students and educators without allowing for the time required for the development of suitable evaluation techniques. Although everyone in the field is aware that judging this type of teaching software can only come through evaluations, the work done in this regard is scarce and ill organized. Unfortunately, in many of the cases the evaluation forms were just filled in by instructors who pretended they were students when they went through the tutorial systems (Reiser et al., 1994).