IDEA: Identifying design principles in educational applets |
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Authors: | Jody S Underwood Christopher Hoadley Hollylynne Stohl Lee Karen Hollebrands Chris DiGiano K Ann Renninger |
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Institution: | (1) Educational Testing Service, Rosedale Road, MS 13-E, 08541 Princeton, NJ;(2) College of Education & School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, Penn, USA;(3) Department of Mathematics Education, North Carolina State University, Carolina, USA;(4) Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International, USA;(5) Swarthmore College, USA |
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Abstract: | The Internet is increasingly being used as a medium for educational software in the form of miniature applications (e.g.,
applets) to explore concepts in a domain. One such effort in mathematics education, the Educational Software Components of
Tomorrow (ESCOT) project, created 42 miniature applications each consisting of a context, a set of questions, and one or more
interactive applets to help students explore a mathematical concept. They were designed by experts in interface design, educational
technology, and classroom teaching. However, some applications were more successful for fostering student problem-solving
than others. This article describes the method used to mine a subset (25) of these applets for design principles that describe
successful learner-centered design by drawing on such data as videos of students using the software and summaries of written
student work. Twenty-one design principles were identified, falling into the categories of motivation, presentation, and support
for problem solving. The main purpose of this article is to operationalize a method for post hoc extraction of design principles
from an existing library of educational software, although readers may also find the design principles themselves to be useful.
This project was funded by a seed grant from the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies funded by the National Science
Foundation (REC # 9720384), and was partially supported by Educational Testing Service. Any opinions expressed in this publication
are those of the authors and not necesarily of Educational Testing Service. |
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