الكاتب/ة الباحث/ة
Dr Fathi Ihmeideh
الناشر/المؤسسة
British Journal of Educational Technology
تاريخ الإصدار
2015
الدولة
الأردن
Developmentally appropriate courseware can play a crucial role in enhancing children’s
learning and development. Research studies have demonstrated that early childhood
educators face major challenges in selecting and updating developmental courseware
that supports young children’s development. The primary purpose of this study was to
assess children’s digital courseware employed in Jordanian kindergartens in accordance
with developmentally appropriate courseware criteria. A random sample of 57 course-
ware programs employed in both public and private kindergartens was assessed using
10 criteria for developmentally appropriate courseware. The findings suggest that the
courseware implemented in Jordanian kindergartens exhibited a moderate degree of
appropriateness. The courseware was the most developmentally appropriate in the areas
of “technical features” and “clear instruction,” while the real-work model and transfor-
mations were the least appropriate. Moreover, the findings revealed that children’s
courseware implemented in public kindergartens was more developmentally appropriate
than those in private kindergartens. These findings and their implications were discussed.