Evaluation Software

Sultan Qaboos University Collage of Education Instructional and learning technology department

Evaluation software:

Done By: 1. Khalsa Saif Al-Husseini. (82930). 2. Hanna Saif Al-Zuhaibi (69635). 3. Muna Mohammed Al-Dahuri ( 82929)

In our presentation we discussed these points: 1. Description: Firstly we define the software and described it by this short term: Crocodile clips software is a simulated program for physics classroom, which has variety models of physics experiments and tutorials that guides learners. These experiments link the students to the real life. 2. Objectives: As any simulation software we mentioned in our presentation the objectives of this program: 1. To make physics easy subject. 2. Enhance students' interest to study. 3. Encourage students to imagine. Target learner It is suitable for Secondary students 3. Features: In this point we focused on the features of crocodile physics as stimulation software: 1. Provides tutorial guide. 2. Controllable experiments situation. 3. Options for: saving, stopping, pausing, reload experiments. 4. Selecting appropriate experiment. 5. Simulate difficult experiments in easy way. 6. Help teachers to display their lessons in easy way. 7. Saving time 4. Teacher roles: The teachers' roles in this software are: 1. Guide the students to use program. 2. Interpret any obscurities. 3. Link the lesson with existing experiment. 5. Saving time 6. Option for printing 7. Let students to repeat events as many time as they want. 8. Make experiment safe

5. Students roles: The roles of students in this software are:

1. Perform the experiments. 2. They can repeat the experiments many times. 3. Modifying experiments situations. 6. Evaluation: In evaluation point we discussed these three aspects:  educational aspect: • Appropriate for students abilities. • Information related to the secondary physics curriculum. • Variety of activities with levels of complexity.  Technical aspects: • Options for stop, pause, exit, reload • Options for printing, saving activities. • Option for help and tutorial segments  Documentation: • Gives summary of the content. • Description of how to use program 7. Weakness: Any software has weakness points so we consider to monition these points in our presentation which are: • This program doesn’t have sound. • it doesn’t give feedback. • It has some hard activities. • It isn’t suitable for all school stages.