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Article: Evaluating Educational Software for Special Education.
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- Intervention in School & Clinic
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Technology is obviously rapidly becoming an indispensable part of everyday life. As such, it is also becoming an integral component of our educational system (Armstrong, Yang-Doff, & Cuneo, 1994; Lovely, 1996; Pastor & Kerns, 1997). Because commercial educational software often forms the nucleus of technology-based instruction in special education and general education classrooms, obtaining quality educational software targeted for specific audiences and situations is vital.
Educators rely on experts in commercial businesses to produce quality educational software for classroom use, with the assumption that the software has been designed to meet the unique ...