In:
Journal of Baltic Science Education, Scientia Socialis Ltd, Vol. 18, No. 4 ( 2019-8-15), p. 634-645
Abstract:
This research uses board games as teaching material to develop students’ decision-making ability and basic scientific literacy and to foster students’ value for nature and social caring by working with socioscientific issues. The board game structure contains four perspective systems: ecological, economic, cultural, and political. In the game processing, students must handle, consider, and understand the different role players’ positions and face different missions that involve socioeconomic and environmental conflicts. When making any decisions, students affect the follow-up game behaviors and develop tendencies. The board game instruction was field-tested with 38 high-school students from two different high schools. Students played the board game for a total of 200 minutes. Students’ scientific conceptions concerning biodiversity (closed-ended) and perspectives on socioscientific issues (open-ended) were assessed before and after the board game lesson. The results showed that students in both high schools significantly increased their understanding of biodiversity concepts, with a high level of effect size (Cohen's d equal to 1.40 and 1.06, respectively, for the two schools). In the semistructured interviews, the interviewed students were able to reflect on the value of animals and provide various opinions about animal conservation and economic development. Keywords: board game, decision making, descriptive research, game base learning, socioscientific issue.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2538-7138
,
1648-3898
DOI:
10.33225/jbse/19.18.4
DOI:
10.33225/jbse/19.18.634
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scientia Socialis Ltd
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2136009-1
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