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Development of children's creativity and manual skills within digital game-based learning environment.
- Source :
- Journal of Computer Assisted Learning; Aug2014, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p377-395, 19p, 4 Black and White Photographs, 4 Diagrams, 9 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- In this study, we developed a digital game-based learning (DGBL) system, called the ToES, to foster students' creativity. Fifty-one fifth-grade students from two classes in a public school in Taipei, Taiwan, were recruited and consented to participate. Both classes consisted of students with mixed abilities studying a foundation unit entitled "Electrical Science" in a natural science course. One class was chosen to be the experimental group (EG) and the other class was the control group (CG). The goal of this study was to examine how different instructional strategies (i.e., traditional instruction and instruction using digital games) affected the students' creativity and their performance on manual skills. The analytical results indicated that the students' creativity and their performance on manual skills displayed positive growth when they were involved in acquiring knowledge and resolving tasks in a DGBL environment, which fostered their creativity and facilitated the generation of flow experiences. Moreover, there were three interesting findings related to the use of DGBL: (1) the ToES was an effective learning tool for cultivating the students' creativity; (2) there was a positive effect of creativity and their performance of manual skills; and (3) the ToES accelerated the improvement of practical behaviors regarding manual skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ELEMENTARY education
ANALYSIS of covariance
COMPUTER assisted instruction
STATISTICAL correlation
CREATIVE ability
LEARNING strategies
RESEARCH methodology
MOTOR ability
QUESTIONNAIRES
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SCHOOL children
T-test (Statistics)
VIDEO games
PRE-tests & post-tests
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02664909
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97233171
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12057