Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hwang, Gwo-Jen
• Hung, Chun-Ming
• Chen, Nian-Shing

Titel

Improving learning achievements, motivations and problem-solving skills through a peer assessment-based game development approach

Ist Teil von

• Educational technology research and development, 2014-04, Vol.62 (2), p.129-145

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer Science + Business Media

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this study, a peer assessment-based game development approach is proposed for improving students' learning achievements, motivations and problem-solving skills. An experiment has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in a science course at an elementary school. A total of 167 sixth graders participated in the experiment, 82 of whom were assigned to the experimental group and learned with the peer assessment-based game development approach, while 85 students were in the control group and learned with the conventional game development approach. From the empirical results, it was found that the proposed approach could effectively promote students' learning achievement, learning motivation, problem-solving skills, as well as their perceptions of the use of educational computer games. Moreover, it was found from the openended questions that most of the students perceived peer assessment-based game development as an effective learning strategy that helped them improve their deep learning status in terms of "in-depth thinking," "creativity," and "motivation."