The websites of primary and secondary schools in Portugal: An evaluation proposal

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Ana Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Cordón García, José Antonio, Gómez Díaz, Raquel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1948; https://doi.org/Santos, A. M., Cordón García, J. A. & Gómez Díaz, R. (2017). The websites of primary and secondary schools in Portugal: An evaluation proposal. Education in the Knowledge Society, 18(3), 37-58. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/eks20171833758.; https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/eks20171833758
• topic: Evaluation of Educational Websites; Primary School; High School; Teaching; Evaluation criteria; Education; Evaluación de sitios web educativos; Educación Primaria; Educación Secundaria

This article proposes an evaluation the quality in educational websites of two degrees of education, Primary School and the High school. To stablish this analysis was used a Model of Evaluation of the Quality of Educational Websites (EQEWS) divided into Functional Aspects, with five criteria: authority, update, usability, accessibility and communication; and Technical- Aesthetic Aspects, with five principles: graphic design and multimedia quality, content, navigation, speed of access and interaction. This propose model of evaluation applied to 57 websites, according to the Likert scale of 0 to 4. We conclude that Secondary School web sites achieved better results in most of the evaluated criteria, it is verified that the authors of these resources are entirely identified with the needs and with the requirement that this degree of education requires the students, with levels of focused on achieving excellent results for university entrance.