Editing Educational software (section)

== Effects and use of educational software ==

=== Tutor-based software ===
Tutor-based education software is defined as software that mimics the teacher student one on one dynamic of tutoring with software in place of a teacher. Research was conducted to see if this type of software would be effective in improving students understanding of material. It concluded that there was a positive impact which decreased the amount of time students need to study for and relative gain of understanding.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bennane|first=Abdellah|date=December 2012|title=Adaptive Educational Software by Applying Reinforcement Learning|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1064356.pdf|journal=Informatics in Education|volume=12|via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>

=== Helping those with disabilities ===
A study was conducted to see the effects of education software on children with mild disabilities. The results were that the software was a positive impact assisting teaching these children social skills though team based learning and discussion, videos and games.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hetzroni|first=Orit E.|date=July 2016|title=The Effect of Educational Software, Video Modelling and Group Discussion on Social-Skill Acquisition Among Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities|journal= Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities|volume=30|issue=4|pages=757–773|doi=10.1111/jar.12271|pmid=27406635|s2cid=4424530}}</ref>

=== Education software evaluation ===
There is a large market of educational software in use today. A team decided that they were to develop a system in which educational software should be evaluated as there is no current standard. It is called the Construction of the Comprehensive Evaluation of Electronic Learning Tools and Educational Software (CEELTES).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=KAROLČÍK|first1=Štefan|last2=ČIPKOVÁ|first2=Elena|last3=HRUŠECKÝ|first3=Roman|last4=VESELSKÝ|first4=Milan|date=2015|title=The Comprehensive Evaluation of Electronic Learning Tools and Educational Software (CEELTES)|url=https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/393/info|journal=Informatics in Education|volume=14|issue=2|pages=243–264|doi=10.15388/infedu.2015.14|doi-access=free}}</ref> The software to be evaluated is graded on a point scale in four categories: the area of technical, technological and user attributes; area of criteria evaluating the information, content and operation of the software; the area of criteria evaluating the information in terms of educational use, learning and recognition; the area of criteria evaluating the psychological and pedagogical use of the software.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Karolcík|first=Štefan|date=2015|title=The Comprehensive Evaluation of Electronic Learning Tools and Educational Software (CEELTES)|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1079014|journal=Informatics in Education|volume=14|issue=2|pages=243–264|via=ERIC|doi=10.15388/infedu.2015.14|doi-access=free}}</ref>

=== Use in higher education ===
In university level computer science course, learning logic is an essential part of the curriculum. There is a proposal on using two logistical education tool [[sourceforge:projects/folst/|FOLST]] and LogicChess to understand [[First-order logic|First Order Logic]] for university students to better understand the course material and the essentials of logistical design.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mauco |first=Maria Virginia |date=November 2014 |title=Educational Software for First Order Logic Semantics in Introductory Logic Courses |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1140774.pdf |journal=Information Systems Education Journal |volume=12 |pages=15–23 |via=ERIC}}</ref>