The Evaluation of Educational Software Used in Primary Schools Based on the First Principles of Merrill Education

This study aimed to evaluate educational software used at priming level based on the first principles of Merrill education which was done using evaluative methods. For this purpose, 18 different software were selected from among the educational software at elementary level that have been produced by the ministry of education in years 1391- 1393 and evaluated using a 20 item-ersearcher made checklist. The content validity of the checklist was approved by three experts and its reliability was estimated through re-encoding 15% of the software by a second encoder, which came to be .84. The results showed that the mean of the principle of integration was at an unfavorable level; the means of the principles of problem-centered and activation were at a rather favorable level, and the mean of the principles of demonstration and application were at a favorable level. On the whole, it can be concluded that educational software are based on the first principles of Merrill education to an acceptable level except for the integration principle.