Parent-Child Interaction in Game-Based Learning

This study is aimed to explore parent-child interaction in a game-based learning activity. The participants were 10 parent-child dyads. The children were 10.4 years old in average and the parents were 45.4 years old. Parent-child interaction behaviors and discourses during gameplay were recorded by both digital video recorders and screen recording software. To explore the patterns of parent-child interactions, a quantitative content analysis was conducted. The parent-child interaction of the game success group and the game fail group were compared. According to the results of quantitative content analysis, the parents of the success group showed more observation and teaching behaviors, and the parents of the fail group mainly observed and gave feedbacks to their children.