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Let’s Play! Using Academic Games and Friendly Competition to Enhance Content Knowledge

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2016
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My research question was to determine if using academic games and friendly competitions during instruction would increase the knowledge of 5th grade students in science content. To test this hypothesis, I created a pre/post assessment cycle design focusing on the human body standard. Participants included 20 5th graders at Park Lakes Elementary. These students took a pre test, were involved in 4 competition based lessons and a posttest. The lessons included competitions such as Speed Bag Drills, Kahoot, and other team based games. At the conclusion of the lessons, a posttest was issued. All 20 students earned a passing score as compared to the low scores on the pretest. Therefore, I was able to conclude that academic games and friendly competitions during instruction increased science content knowledge. I intend to use this technique with future science units to demonstrate improvement on the science portion of the Florida Standardized Assessments.
Title: Let’s Play! Using Academic Games and Friendly Competition to Enhance Content Knowledge.
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Name(s): Osborne, Chelsea
Dassa, Lori
Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Poster
Date Created: 2016
Date Issued: 2016
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Florida
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 1 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: My research question was to determine if using academic games and friendly competitions during instruction would increase the knowledge of 5th grade students in science content. To test this hypothesis, I created a pre/post assessment cycle design focusing on the human body standard. Participants included 20 5th graders at Park Lakes Elementary. These students took a pre test, were involved in 4 competition based lessons and a posttest. The lessons included competitions such as Speed Bag Drills, Kahoot, and other team based games. At the conclusion of the lessons, a posttest was issued. All 20 students earned a passing score as compared to the low scores on the pretest. Therefore, I was able to conclude that academic games and friendly competitions during instruction increased science content knowledge. I intend to use this technique with future science units to demonstrate improvement on the science portion of the Florida Standardized Assessments.
Identifier: FA00005595 (IID)
Subject(s): College students --Research --United States.
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