Collaborative Educational Game for Thai Primary School Students

Abstract

English language, Mathematics and Science
for life are mandatory subjects for Thai students to finish their
primary school studies. Regarding the unsatisfied result of the
annual assessment, there are many students fail those subjects
every year. This paper thus proposes the educational computer
game to enhance learning of English language, Mathematics and
Sciences subjects. The proposed game employs the concept of
collaborative learning integrated into the game to promote the
better understanding of contents and the familiarization of team
work experience, while the players are still filled with the joy and
the challenge. The proposed game is designed as a multi-players
online game. All players compete among each other to be a leader
and conduct the game along with help from team members to
achieve the goal. The developed game is evaluated with 2 aspects
including the learning efficiency and the satisfaction of students.
The empirical study is conducted with 100 students from 3
different primary schools in Chiang Rai, Thailand. These students
are divided into 2 groups including the group playing game
individually and collaboratively respectively. The first group has
25 students while the second group has 15 groups with 5 students
per each. The results reveal that, the students playing game
collaboratively can achieve higher learning efficiency than the
students playing game individually. Moreover, the collaborative
game obtains Good satisfaction level by the students.