Methodology for the Evaluation of Educational Software: A Vision from Training to Praxis

Abstract

The objective of this article is to propose a methodology for the evaluation of educational software focused on the formation of praxis, aimed at improving the learning process of didactic contents. The theoretical bases of the study contain important aspects for the development of the work such as educational software, software evaluation methodology, ISO-9126 standard methodology, learning process; among others. Ontologically, the research was developed in the educational context, considering itself as an institution of a social nature with a complex feeling in its formative procedure, in the same way it was framed in a qualitative investigation, epistemologically supported under the interpretive paradigm, with the phenomenological method, using for the data collection in-depth interview. The inquiry obtained was systematized through coding, categorization, contrasting, and triangulation. These aspects allowed us to summarize the most outstanding categories that emerged from the study. The proposal originated the essential aspects to structure the methodological model based on the ADDIE model to evaluate the educational software for the Foundation National Center for Development and Research in Free Technologies (CENDITEL), the results of the implementation of the educational technological tools that are being generating in their institutional spaces.