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Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology
The complex concepts and vocabulary of biology classes discourage many students. In this study, a pretest–posttest model was used to test the effectiveness of an educational card game in reinforcing biological concepts in comparison with traditional teaching methods. The subjects of this study were...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24591506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-05-0093 |
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description | The complex concepts and vocabulary of biology classes discourage many students. In this study, a pretest–posttest model was used to test the effectiveness of an educational card game in reinforcing biological concepts in comparison with traditional teaching methods. The subjects of this study were two biology classes at Bulacan State University–Sarmiento Campus. Both classes received conventional instruction; however, the experimental group's instruction was supplemented with the card game, while the control group's instruction was reinforced with traditional exercises and assignments. The score increases from pretest to posttest showed that both methods effectively reinforced biological concepts, but a t test showed that the card game is more effective than traditional teaching methods. Additionally, students from the experimental group evaluated the card game using five criteria: goals, design, organization, playability, and usefulness. The students rated the material very satisfactory. |
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spelling | pubmed-39404662014-03-04 Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology Gutierrez, Arnel F. CBE Life Sci Educ Articles The complex concepts and vocabulary of biology classes discourage many students. In this study, a pretest–posttest model was used to test the effectiveness of an educational card game in reinforcing biological concepts in comparison with traditional teaching methods. The subjects of this study were two biology classes at Bulacan State University–Sarmiento Campus. Both classes received conventional instruction; however, the experimental group's instruction was supplemented with the card game, while the control group's instruction was reinforced with traditional exercises and assignments. The score increases from pretest to posttest showed that both methods effectively reinforced biological concepts, but a t test showed that the card game is more effective than traditional teaching methods. Additionally, students from the experimental group evaluated the card game using five criteria: goals, design, organization, playability, and usefulness. The students rated the material very satisfactory. American Society for Cell Biology 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3940466/ /pubmed/24591506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-05-0093 Text en © 2014 A. F. Gutierrez. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2014 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0). “ASCB®” and “The American Society for Cell Biology®” are registered trademarks of The American Society of Cell Biology. |
spellingShingle | Articles Gutierrez, Arnel F. Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology |
title | Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology |
title_full | Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology |
title_fullStr | Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology |
title_short | Development and Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game as Supplementary Material in Understanding Selected Topics in Biology |
title_sort | development and effectiveness of an educational card game as supplementary material in understanding selected topics in biology |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24591506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-05-0093 |
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