TY - GEN
T1 - The relationships of social economic status and learners' motivation and performance in learning from a game-design project
AU - Wang, Li Chun
AU - Chen, Ming Puu
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Game-based learning
KW - Learning strategy
KW - Motivation
KW - Social economic status
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052731533&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=80052731533&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2011.161
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2011.161
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052731533
SN - 9780769543468
T3 - Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
SP - 524
EP - 528
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
T2 - 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2011
Y2 - 6 July 2011 through 8 July 2011
ER -