Evaluation of hypermedia educational programs of final product and in a context similar to that of application

Following the thematic of the hypermedia construction (Cataldi, Lage et al., 2001), in this article it is presented the evaluation of hypermedial educative software as a tool for the applications selection. Through the preliminary evaluation of the 25 most used programs in all the levels of the educative system, the necessity to standardize the design and the evaluation of the didactic hypermedia was detected. We present the evaluation grids in an exhaustive form, considering the pedagogical, didactic, communicational, organizational aspects as well as the economics and technicians facets. The grids applied to a hypermedia program used like a didactic tool for initials courses of algorithms, as therefore the evaluation conducted in a contextualized form. This evaluation arises as a complement of the internal and external evaluations made in the educational software. A general card model of the program also appears to accompany the application to facilitate the tutor selection. Finally, a contextualized evaluation of an application is made, detailing each of the steps of the procedure, the stages of the statistical treatment of the results and the conclusions at which we have arrived.