Pre-Service and Beginning Teachers Rate the Utility of Virtual Museum Web Sites

Source: Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Volume 19, Issue 3, October 2011, 331-349.

The authors investigated criteria that 91 pre-service and beginning teachers used to evaluate award-winning virtual science museum Web sites for future use in teaching.

Individual differences affected ratings, including teaching experience, age and gender.

A categorization of participants’ reasons for selection included principle reasons as audience level, design and information quality.