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14.2 Key points/learning outcomes |
Evaluation of
software
Evaluation criteria
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Understand the need for
establishing evaluation criteria, to include;
-agreed problem
specification
-functionality
-performance – use of
benchmarks
-usability and
human-machine interfaces
-compatibility with
existing software base
-transferability of
data
-robustness
-user support
-resource requirements
including hardware, software and human
-upgradability
-portability
-financial issues –
-development cost
-development opportunities#
Evaluation
report
See the
books page for more
details about the titles listed below
McWeeney - A205 pages 8 - 10
Mott & Leeming -
Chapter 16
Doyle - Chapter 17
Heathcote - Chapter 54
AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed
but...
Practice questions
Past paper practice questions for 14.2 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer)
suitable for revision/homework etc. etc.
Past paper answers
Answers to the questions above. Password protected .doc file. Sorry but
the password is only available to teachers.
Older Exam Papers
Past papers (pre 2000) not included on the official AQA site from
Colchester VI Form College. These still contain some relevant questions
for this topic. Look for IT05/ICT5 papers.
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Links to general online
resources for 14.2. I'd recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save
Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)
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Software Evaluation |
Very very very good PowerPoint presentation
from Kesgrave High School neatly summarises this topic. Very useful for
revision.
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Software Selection - 7 Step
Guide |
Outline guide thingy for selecting
educational software. Can be related to the "Steps for evaluating
software" in Doyle page 274.
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14.2 Software
Evaluation Questions |
Handout containing a set of questions from
Gerald Horsley at B & P College. Useful end of unit exercise for
revision.
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14.2 Software Evaluation |
Short PowerPoint presentation based on
chapter 54 of the Heathcote A level textbook. This version contains
supplementary notes, links and exercises from Mortimer Wilson.
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Software Evaluation
Timeline |
From Kesgrave. I'm not exactly sure what you'd use this
for??? It looks very nice anyway so it's probably worth downloading.
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Set of online revision notes
for this topic (based largely on the Heathcote textbook) from the rather good Antonine Education.
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Software Evaluation
Task |
Nice group work exercise from Whitby
Community College can be used to explore many parts of this topic.
FatMax recommended.
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Software Evaluation |
Short online PowerPoint presentation from
Colchester VI Form College. There's a pretty good set of notes to
accompany the presentation available
here
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14.2 Software Evaluation |
Summary notes and questions for this topic from North Chadderton High School.
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MS Office vs. OpenOffice.org |
Survey by eWeek compares MSO and OOo from
different users' perspectives. Might be a nice idea to look at this and
then try the same for other alternative packages e.g. IE vs. Firefox.
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MS
Office vs OpenOffice.org |
Summary of the findings from the above
survey
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Evaluation Report |
Brief set of notes outlining reasons for and
contents of a Software Evaluation Report. Contains practice question and
answer.
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Software |
Cool PowerPoint from
ICT-Teacher
It's a *bit* orange (and you might need sunglasses) but don't let that
put you off the very good content.
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Revision Questions |
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Handout containing a couple of older
Computing/ICT questions from NEAB.
Suitable for homework, revision, blah de blah de blah etc.. |
Key to resources:
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