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PETESE – Pedagogical Ergonomic Tool of Educational Software Evaluation : an anasynthesis applied to the case study of GGBook

In the last few years, education and technology combine and created growing opportunities for teaching and learning, among them educational software. However, some educational software on the market are badly organized and contain ergonomical errors, who interfere in the teachinglearning process. Therefore, pedagogical usability is from huge importance during the development of new educational software, before their launching on the market. In response to the existant rarely complete, badly presented, uneasy to use, abstract and unspecific checklists and guidelines, this study proposes a pedagogical ergonomical tool of educational software evaluation (PETESE). This tool is constructed based on an anasynthesis methodology with literature criteria in the field of ergonomics, education and mathematics. In a second part, the PETESE is applied to the educational software GGBook, a numeric book developed by the Abaco’s lab (University of Brasilia) based on the GeoGebra environment and integrating facilities between the graphics and the operations elements. In this case study, the development tool as well as future-user analyse the software based on the PETESE. The results of this research show the importance of a pedagogical ergonomical evaluation that raises important elements forewards and possible improvements before the educational software enters the schools and homes.

Keywords : PETESE, educational software, pedagogical usability, predictive evaluation, GGBook.