Choosing the best books, data processing software, and toys is an important and essential task for anyone who works with children. As computer use becomes more common at homes and classroom learning, the selection of software takes on even more importance. Despite the growing need for software review information, however, the number of software evaluation studies and published papers on the topic has decreased steadily since its peak year in 1984. This article examines the current state of children's software evaluation practice and predicts what the future of educational software evaluation might look like in light of the potential of the dynamic nature of educational and edutainment software. Key issues are discussed such as the best way to evaluate the appropriateness of software for children at each age-group and the most efficient means of making this information available to parents and teachers.

Curriculum design is one of the main parts of the process of teaching and learning in education. In fact, the null curriculum refers to the deleted and ignored parts of a curriculum. In this study, we tried to analyze the null curriculum and identify the factors that led to the null curriculum at schools. The null curriculum occurs in three levels: Some parts of the content of textbooks are deleted or added by policy makers, writers or politicians, due to the mismatch between the needs of students and society. Some parts of the content of the curriculum are neglected by staff and teachers in schools. Finally, some parts of the content of textbooks are omitted by the students that not connected with their real life. The main objective of this research is to provide a theoretical perspective on the three levels of the null curriculum based on governing system in society, schools and students. Finally, we propose some solutions to prevent of null content in the planning or execution of curriculum.

In the present research the contents of the book of Basic Educational Technology, written by Ms. Khadijeh Aliabadi, as one of the books published by Payame Noor University is being analysed and its self-study feature concerning the existing criteria of the books used in the distant educational system is being studied. These criteria in the literature of research include: general goals, behavioral objectives, study guidelines, the method of compilation, contents of chapters, summary of chapters, and self evaluation at the end of each chapter. To carry out this work a questionnaire including 33 multiple choice questions based on Likert’s scaling method has been prepared. Then 165 students of educational sciences among 953 ones who have studied the book in Payame Noor centers of Tehran were selected as accessible samples. After distributing the questionnaires by the help of descriptive statistics, X2 test, proportion test and T test the following were the outcomes:1. In students’ opinion general and behavioral goals of the book are achievable and this book complies with the existing criteria in distant education system.2. In the study guidelines, timing is not explained well. 3. The contents of chapters do not encourage students to study different sources, and in the compilation of book subjects are not presented attractively.

Publishing articles in scientific journals is a way to enter the field of science, and getting acceptance for studies andfindings of researchers. Certainly, such a process requires a careful and delicate work, and it could present updated and applied information based on experiences and newfindings of the researcher.The importance of this process becomes more, when based on the published paper, other researchers begin new studies and use it as a reference due to its’ scientific credit. Production of science is also interlinked with the referee of scientific society. As a matter of fact, publication of scientific journals is based on the scientific referee. Through content analysis of rejected papers in the journal of educational innovations, we tried to identify, classify and prioritize the main drawbacks of the above-mentioned papers according to the referees’ views. To do so, we analyzed the contents of 402 referee documents of 207 rejected papers in the journal of educational innovations. It presents major faults with the articles from the viewpoint of arbitrators, and identifies, categorizes and prioritizes them. Findings of this study showed that from the viewpoint of the editorial board, the main drawbacks of rejected papers were not choosing an appropriate topic and lacking an academic structure (82.5%). Also, from the viewpoint of the referees, the papers drawbacks included lack of discussion and conclusion (14.9%), lack of research background (13.8%) and lack of theoretical framework (11.8%). Review of related papers and research makes the researcher aware of the studies conducted inside and outside the country on the related topic. Thus she/he faces an issue that has been paid less attention, selects appropriate theoretical framework and these enables she/he to present a scientific and evidence-based discussion and conclusion. Sources mentioned within and at the end of paper would clearly display this fact.

Objective: The aim of this research was to conduct a content analysis on addiction prevention educational packages related to Welfare Organization based on addiction prevention components.Method: A qualitative research method and content analysis based on Shannon entropy model were used for the conduct of this study. The statistical population of the study included all educational packages of addiction prevention belonging to Welfare Organization and the sample of the study consisted of Addiction Prevention Package, Life Skills (1), and Life Skills (2).Results: The results showed that self-awareness and empathy have received the highest attention and decision-making and problem-solving are ranked in the next places in the content of addiction prevention package. On the other hand, effective communication, creative and critical thinking, teaching about drugs, and coping with stress have received the minimum attention in the content of the package. In book of Life Skills (1), decision-making, problem-solving, effective communication, and teaching about drugs have been assigned the highest attention whereas coping with stress, emotions management, creative and critical thinking, self-awareness, and empathy have been given the lowest voice. In book of Life Skills (2), the highest attention has been paid to decision-making, problem-solving, self-awareness, empathy, and effective communication while the lowest attention has been given to creative and critical thinking, teaching about drugs, coping with stress, and emotions management.Conclusion: Given that some components of addiction prevention have not been given enough attention, their inclusion into educational packages will make an effective contribution to the improvement of knowledge in the target population.

A Media by instructive oriented approach can play an important role in improvement of educational strategies of a country. Emergence of modern information and communication technology in media industry was the main reason for definition of digital media as a tool for educational objectives. The way which the digital content can be presented and how much it is probably welcomed by the audience has always been considered as a challenge. Whatever the digital content of educational media be better managed, the educational administration process would be optimized and the main objective of this research is based on this fact. The research type is correlation. Statistical sample of this research included two groups, each included 30 persons who have investigated 239 digital educational contents. For data gathering a researcher constructed questionnaire composed of 30 questions was used. Validity of this questionnaire has been guaranteed. The research result which has been analyzed by SPSS software showed a meaningful correlation between output of model and experts on learning tendency of digital media audiences.