ABSTRACT
Summary: Some special problems and characteristics distinguish the evaluation of large-scale computer-related educational activity from other educational evaluation situations and may serve as constraints to the conduct of an evaluation. Nonetheless, systematic evaluation is important. This chapter discusses some of these problems and characteristics, describes a general approach to such evaluation that can accommodate computer-related educational activity, and illustrates this approach through commenting upon its application to the evaluation of a national educational-software-development project in The Netherlands. The article concludes with an evaluation of the evaluation approach, paying particular consideration to its generalizability to other large-scale computer-related educational activities.
