How Do We Evaluate Children's Software?
There were three stages to our evaluation process.
- First we worked with Museum experts to develop an exacting set of standards.
- Next we personally tested close to 1,000 titles against those ideals.
- Then, programs that made it past this first level of scrutiny were turned over to the toughest critics of all, our test families. These families used the software in their homes over several months. And we spent lots of time talking with kids and parents, one on one, to understand what they liked and why.
We'd like to give you a closer look at the questions we asked during every evaluation, so you can begin subjecting programs to the same kind of scrutiny.
Our criteria sound simple enough:
But we read a lot into these words, as you'll see.
And finally, we asked the most important question of all: does the software bring a truly new dimension to learning?
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