Quality & Quantity
Springer - http://link.springer.com/journal/11135
CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SECTION ON
Empirical evaluation of educational interactive systems
Submission Deadline: January 20, 2016
Guest Editors
- Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Associate Professor of the Computer Science Department, Research Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Salamanca, Spain
- Lourdes Moreno López, Associate Professor of the Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Ernesto de la Rubia, Researcher, Electronic Technology Engineering Department, University of Malaga
Motivation
Educational software systems are usually highly interactive systems that needs to be evaluated from two different perspectives, first as interactive software, mainly using usability and accessibility approaches, and second as an educational product that needs to be evaluated from its learning impact.
The empirical evaluation methods may be quantitative, with a more deductive reasoning, or qualitative, with a more inductive reasoning, oriented, however mixed approaches have been used extensively because they combine the both main methods with a more pragmatic knowledge focusing on knowing the consequences or solving problems.
The empirical evaluation of interactive educational software due to its own characteristics requires a mixed approach typically.
This special issue is devoted to identify, share and valorise best practices and experiences, with a very solid modelling background, that are focused on the empirical evaluation of educational interactive systems with a special emphasis on mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Topics
For this Special Section, we solicit original and unpublished contributions related to experiences of empirical evaluation of educational interactive systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Qualitative evaluation of educational interactive systems
- Quantitative evaluation of educational interactive systems
- Mixed quantitative and qualitative evaluation of educational interactive systems
Important Deadlines
| Submission of manuscripts | January 20, 2016 |
| Notification of reviewers’ feedback | February 15, 2017 |
| Submission of final manuscripts | March 15, 2017 |
| Final acceptance | April 30, 2017 |
Submission
We also would like to encourage submissions of interdisciplinary work by authors from different areas. If authors have any questions regarding the suitability of their work for this special section, whether topical or methodological, they should not hesitate to contact the lead guest editor (fgarcia [at] usal.es.).
Full submissions must be sent through the online submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/ququ/default.aspx
General information and guidelines are available at the Journal web site: http://link.springer.com/journal/11135.
Contact addresses
- Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Associate Professor of the Computer Science Department, Research Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Salamanca, Spain, fgarcia [at] usal.es
- Lourdes Moreno López, Associate Professor of the Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, lmoreno [at] inf.uc3m.es
- Ernesto de la Rubia, Assistant Professor, Electronic Technology Engineering Department, University of Malaga, e [at] uma.es