Paper Title :The Effects of Serious Board Games on College Students’ use of Cognitive Strategies
Author :Chun-Ping Wu, Jia-Jyun Chen, Ya-Han Chuang, Shu-Ling Wu
Article Citation :Chun-Ping Wu ,Jia-Jyun Chen ,Ya-Han Chuang ,Shu-Ling Wu ,
(2018 ) " The Effects of Serious Board Games on College Students’ use of Cognitive Strategies " ,
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) ,
pp. 9-12,
Volume-4,Issue-3
Abstract : To aid cognitive processing and structuring, learners must be engaged in activities that provoke students’ mental
process (e.g., rehearsal, organization, elaboration). Learners need to be self-motivated and persistent in deliberately practice
executing thecognitive strategies during their learning process. A well-designed serious game may motivate learners to
persistently execute specific strategies to accomplish the game tasks. Therefore, this study aims to design three serious board
games providing joyful environment for learner to practice using cognitive strategies. Three serious board games were
designed and developed by the research team. The pre-and-posttest experimental research method was adopted to investigate
the quality and effects of the games on the players’ mastery of the chosen domain knowledge. Thirty-six college students,
matriculated in educational technology program, participated in the summative evaluation for three consecutive weeks. The
results show that the participants are satisfied with the games with the average scores above 4.3. In regard with the
participants’ mastery of chosen domain knowledge, the paired t-test result supports the significant difference between posttest
and pre-test (t=11.55, p<0.001). To address the limitation of single-group experimental design, a partial correlation using
the pre-test score as the control variable was conducted. A significant correlation between game performance and the posttest
scores (r=.39, p=.02) was found.
Keywords - Cognitive Strategies, A Serious Board Game Design, Higher Education
Type : Research paper
Published : Volume-4,Issue-3
DOIONLINE NO - IJMAS-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-11517
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