{"title":"An evaluation of educational apps for preschool-age children in Android and iOS","authors":"Anastasia Strataki","doi":"10.25082/amler.2022.01.012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Applications (apps) available as educational in digital app stores for preschoolers claim that they offer to learn content on a wide range of basic academic skills, including counting, reading, and pattern recognition. This research aimed to investigate the educational quality of a range of educational applications for Android and iOS Operating Systems aimed at preschool-age children, i.e., children from 3 to 5 years old. The evaluation was done using two scientific tools: the rubrics published by Lee & Cherner entitled \"A Comprehensive Evaluation Rubric for Assessing Instructional Apps\" and by Papadakis, Kalogiannakis & Zaranis entitled \"Designing and creating an educational app rubric for preschool teachers\". The research results showed that most proclaimed educational applications did not have a real educational value. Research extensions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":405558,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25082/amler.2022.01.012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Applications (apps) available as educational in digital app stores for preschoolers claim that they offer to learn content on a wide range of basic academic skills, including counting, reading, and pattern recognition. This research aimed to investigate the educational quality of a range of educational applications for Android and iOS Operating Systems aimed at preschool-age children, i.e., children from 3 to 5 years old. The evaluation was done using two scientific tools: the rubrics published by Lee & Cherner entitled "A Comprehensive Evaluation Rubric for Assessing Instructional Apps" and by Papadakis, Kalogiannakis & Zaranis entitled "Designing and creating an educational app rubric for preschool teachers". The research results showed that most proclaimed educational applications did not have a real educational value. Research extensions are discussed.