The Relationship of Learner Characteristics of Gaming with Math Engagement

Mido Chang (), Sunha Kim () and Namok Choi ()
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Mido Chang: Florida International University
Sunha Kim: State University of New York at Buffalo
Namok Choi: University of Louisville

No 2404065, Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The main purpose of the study was to examine the effects of student?s gaming behaviors and perceptions of games on the engagement in the mathematics classrooms. For the study, the research team recruited 299 sixth grade students from two schools located in rural areas of Virginia in the United States and collected data. For the analytical tool, we employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship of gaming behaviors with the engagement mediated by perceptions of instructional games. We found that student?s mathematics engagement was associated with student?s perceptions of games and gaming behaviors. The game hours drew a significant path to student?s perceptions of game learning while the game frequencies had a significant path to student?s perceptions of game utility. The student?s perceptions made significant paths to mathematics engagement. This study provided empirical information on student?s mathematics engagement connecting student?s perceptions of game learning and games utility.

Keywords: instructional games; gaming behavior; perception of gaming; engagement; middle grades (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2015-06
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Teaching & Education Conference, Amsterdam, Jun 2015, pages 54-60

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