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Investigating the Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game for Learning How Human Immunology Is Regulated

This study was conducted in an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of an educational card game we developed for learning human immunology. Two semesters of evaluation were included to examine the impact of the game on students’ understanding and perceptions of the game-based instruction. Ninety...

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Autores principales: Su, TzuFen, Cheng, Meng-Tzu, Lin, Shu-Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Cell Biology 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25185233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-10-0197
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description This study was conducted in an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of an educational card game we developed for learning human immunology. Two semesters of evaluation were included to examine the impact of the game on students’ understanding and perceptions of the game-based instruction. Ninety-nine senior high school students (11th graders) were recruited for the first evaluation, and the second-semester group consisted of 72 students (also 11th graders). The results obtained indicate that students did learn from the educational card game. Moreover, students who learned from playing the game significantly outperformed their counterparts in terms of their understanding of the processes and connections among different lines of immunological defense (first semester: t = 2.92, p < 0.01; second semester: t = 3.45, p < 0.01) according to the qualitative analysis of an open-ended question. They generally had positive perceptions toward the game-based instruction and its learning efficiency, and they felt the game-based instruction was much more interesting than traditional didactic lectures (first semester: t = 2.79, p < 0.01; second semester: t = 2.41, p < 0.05). This finding is evidence that the educational card game has potential to facilitate students’ learning of how the immune system works. The implications and suggestions for future work are further discussed.
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spelling pubmed-41522112014-09-23 Investigating the Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game for Learning How Human Immunology Is Regulated Su, TzuFen Cheng, Meng-Tzu Lin, Shu-Hua CBE Life Sci Educ General Articles This study was conducted in an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of an educational card game we developed for learning human immunology. Two semesters of evaluation were included to examine the impact of the game on students’ understanding and perceptions of the game-based instruction. Ninety-nine senior high school students (11th graders) were recruited for the first evaluation, and the second-semester group consisted of 72 students (also 11th graders). The results obtained indicate that students did learn from the educational card game. Moreover, students who learned from playing the game significantly outperformed their counterparts in terms of their understanding of the processes and connections among different lines of immunological defense (first semester: t = 2.92, p < 0.01; second semester: t = 3.45, p < 0.01) according to the qualitative analysis of an open-ended question. They generally had positive perceptions toward the game-based instruction and its learning efficiency, and they felt the game-based instruction was much more interesting than traditional didactic lectures (first semester: t = 2.79, p < 0.01; second semester: t = 2.41, p < 0.05). This finding is evidence that the educational card game has potential to facilitate students’ learning of how the immune system works. The implications and suggestions for future work are further discussed. American Society for Cell Biology 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4152211/ /pubmed/25185233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-10-0197 Text en © 2014 T. Su et al.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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25185233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-10-0197
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