The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project

Li Chun Wang; Ming Puu Chen

doi:10.1109/ICALT.2011.161

The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project

Li Chun Wang^*, Ming Puu Chen

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Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of social economic status (SES) and learners' motivation and performance in a game-design project. There were 362 junior high school students participated in the gamedesign project. The 4W strategy was employed to help learners understand who, where, when and how to operate the stage and sprite in the game-design activity. The game design topics include design of sprites, move sprites, sensing sprites and scoring. The results showed that the 4W strategy could facilitate high SES learners to comprehend and apply the programming concepts into project production. The high SES learner possessed higher learning motivation and outperformed the low SES learners on project performance. However, how to improve low SES learners' motivation and performance needs to be further investigated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
Pages	524-528
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2011.161
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011 - Athens, GA, United States Duration: 2011 Jul 6 → 2011 Jul 8

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Name	Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011

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Other	2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Athens, GA
Period	2011/07/06 → 2011/07/08

Keywords

Game-based learning
Learning strategy
Motivation
Social economic status

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Education

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Wang, L. C., & Chen, M. P. (2011). The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project. In Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011 (pp. 524-528). Article 5992389 (Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2011.161

The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project. / Wang, Li Chun; Chen, Ming Puu.
Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011. 2011. p. 524-528 5992389 (Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011).

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Wang, LC & Chen, MP 2011, The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project. in Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011., 5992389, Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011, pp. 524-528, 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011, Athens, GA, United States, 2011/07/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2011.161

Wang LC, Chen MP. The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project. In Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011. 2011. p. 524-528. 5992389. (Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011). doi: 10.1109/ICALT.2011.161

Wang, Li Chun ; Chen, Ming Puu. / The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project. Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011. 2011. pp. 524-528 (Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011).

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