TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing multimedia games for young children's taxonomic concept development
AU - Sung, Yao-Ting
AU - Chang, Kuo-En
AU - Lee, Meng Da
N1 - Funding Information:
This research project was supported by grants from the National Science Council, Taiwan, Republic of China (Contract No. NSC 95-2524-S-003-004) and the Center of Research on Educational Evaluation and Development, National Taiwan Normal University (Contract No. 95E0012-C-01-01).
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - This study aimed to design and evaluate multimedia games which were based on the theories of children's development of taxonomic concepts. Factors that might affect children's classification skills, such as use of single physical characteristics of objects, competition between thematic and taxonomic relationships, difficulty in forming hierarchical categories, were identified. Several strategies for overcoming the above disadvantages, such as verbal hints, linguistic labeling, exemplar comparison, and explicit statements were implemented in the Software for Rebuilding Taxonomy (SoRT) for improving children's taxonomic concept learning. Sixty children, aged 4 and 5, participated in the evaluation of SoRT. The results showed that the SoRT was helpful to improve children's distinction between thematic and taxonomic relationships and their learning of hierarchical taxonomic concepts.
AB - This study aimed to design and evaluate multimedia games which were based on the theories of children's development of taxonomic concepts. Factors that might affect children's classification skills, such as use of single physical characteristics of objects, competition between thematic and taxonomic relationships, difficulty in forming hierarchical categories, were identified. Several strategies for overcoming the above disadvantages, such as verbal hints, linguistic labeling, exemplar comparison, and explicit statements were implemented in the Software for Rebuilding Taxonomy (SoRT) for improving children's taxonomic concept learning. Sixty children, aged 4 and 5, participated in the evaluation of SoRT. The results showed that the SoRT was helpful to improve children's distinction between thematic and taxonomic relationships and their learning of hierarchical taxonomic concepts.
KW - Classification
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Multimedia games
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.07.011
DO - 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.07.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38649090386
VL - 50
SP - 1037
EP - 1051
JO - Computers and Education
JF - Computers and Education
SN - 0360-1315
IS - 3
ER -