A Perspective on Games and Patterns

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Author(s): Dores Ferreira (University of Minho, Portugal), Pedro Palhares (University of Minho, Portugal)and Jorge Nuno Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 21
Source title: New Pedagogical Approaches in Game Enhanced Learning: Curriculum Integration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Sara de Freitas (University of Coventry, UK), Michela Ott (Institute for Educational Technology of the Italian National Research Council, Italy), Maria Magdalena Popescu (Carol I National Defence University, Romania)and Ioana Stanescu (Advanced Distributed Learning, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3950-8.ch004

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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In the last few years, the authors have been carrying out a study involving elementary school students from 3rd to 6th years of schooling. The main goal of this study is to identify the possible relationships between the ability to identify patterns and the ability to play games, in particular mathematical games. The research methodology is quantitative and most of the analysis is concerned with the verification of correlation between variables. The analysis takes into account seven factors (besides the ability of pattern recognition) identified through a factor analysis carried out on data. With these tools, the authors have been able to differentiate games according to the different measurements. In this chapter, they disclose the important steps of this research as well as the results and main conclusions reached so far.

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