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- Title
Development of children's creativity and manual skills within digital game-based learning environment.
- Authors
Hsiao, H‐S.; Chang, C‐S.; Lin, C‐Y.; Hu, P‐M.
- 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.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; 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
- Publication
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 4, p377
- ISSN
0266-4909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jcal.12057